New Ambassadors For Nine Countries Have Been Appointed

The government has today(24) appointed Nine new Ambassadors to Nine South American,European ,Middle Eastern and Asian Countries.

According to the Ministry Of Foreign Affairs Sri Lankan Government has been nominated 33 new Ambassadors to fill the vacant Ambassador Posts overseas but only Nine Countries have approved the nominees up to now and the rest of the nominees are pending approvals from respective countries.

The nine approved nominees for the vacant ambassador posts are ,General Jagath Jayasuriya to Brazil, General Daya Ratnayake to Pakistan ,Kshenuka Seneviratne to Thailand,Y.K.A Rohanajith to  Iran,A.M.I Sadiq to Netherlands ,G.Selvaraj to Israel  ,W.M Karunadasa to Qatar,H.A.V Dissanayake to Vietnam and R.D Rajapakshe to Sweden.

Except the ambassadors to Pakistan,Brazil and Qatar all other new ambassadors are career foreign service personal according to the spokeswoman of the Foreign Affairs Ministry Mahishini Kolonne.These new ambassadors are due to take up their positions after completing of orientation programme and other formalities she has said.