Foreign Secretary Ravinatha Aryasinha has requested foreign governments to facilitate the appropriate extension of visas for Sri Lankans currently visiting their countries and facing difficulty to return to Sri Lanka on account of the travel bans that have and will become applicable as part of the control measures on COVID- Read more…
‘Contact Sri Lanka’ an online portal jointly created by the Ministry of Foreign Relations and Information & Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) for the benefit of Overseas Sri Lankans was launched today (26 March 2020) at the Ministry of Foreign Relations. The weblink is hosted on the Ministry web Read more…
– Flights with Passengers may leave Sri Lanka – Ports operations continue uninterrupted To prevent imported new cases of the Coronavirus in the country, the Government decides to indefinitely extend the closure of the arrival terminal at the Airport. The departure terminal will continue to be operational. Also, flights are Read more…
Due to the global Corona Virus outbreak, the Sri Lankan Government has decided the following: To suspend the Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) on arrival for foreign nationals who hold ordinary/normal passports with effect from 12 noon Sri Lanka time on the 14th of March 2020, until further notice. A foreign Read more…
Sri Lanka is deeply concerned about the growing tensions in the Middle East following the assasination of a senior Iranian leader. Sri Lanka urges all parties to act with utmost restraint and maintain peace and security through constructive dialogue in order to de-escalate the threat to the stability of the Read more…