New Foreign Secretary appointed [January 17 2014]

Former Diplomat Kshenuka Seneviratne has been appointed as the Foreign Secretary with effect from today, the External Affairs Ministry announced.

Seneviratne who was an Additional Secretary to the Ministry of External Affairs was succeeding Karunathilake Amunugama, who will be transferred to another ministerial position.

Seneviratne was once the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.