Delegates from 15 countries invited for the Sri Lanka Independence Day celebration

Monday , 04 February 2013

A reports state, delegates from 15 countries operating from New Delhi was invited to attend the Sri Lanka's 65th Independence Day celebration.

They were invited as state invitees to attend the celebration which is held at Trincomalee today.

Ambassadors from 11 countries, High Commissioners from three countries and one official in charge of diplomatic affairs were among the invitees.

Ambassadors  from Afghanistan, Azerbaijani, kacakstan, Peru, Culoveniya, Sweden, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Ukraine and High Commissioners from Rwanda, Papua New guinea and Uganda and official in charge of diplomatic affairs from Lesotho were invited to Sri Lanka.

Approximately 40 countries embassies located in Sri Lanka.  In New Delhi about 80 countries embassies are rendering diplomatic service to Sri Lanka.  Out of these countries, only 15 delegates  from the respective countries, were invited to Colombo.

Kacakstan, Venezuela,  Burkina Faso, Uganda and Peru are membership countries of United Nation Human Rights Council.