Minister Ali Sabry’s US visit...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Sabry paid an official visit to Washington D.C. from 30 November to 02 December 2022. He was in the U.S. capital to meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken. In addition to the meeting with State Secretary Blinken, the Embassy of Sri Lanka to the U.S. facilitated further interactions which included meetings with key U.S. interlocutors including political leaders from both the House of Representatives and the Senate representing both major parties and high officials of the State Department.

Minister Sabry met with a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Senator Bill Hagerty, (Republican – Tennessee) and members of Congress Rep. Bill Johnson (Republican – Ohio), Co-Chair of the Caucus on Ethnic and Religious Freedom in Sri Lanka and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (Democrat – Illinois).

The minister also had a meeting with USAID Administrator Samantha Power, Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights Ambassador Uzra Zeya, who was accompanied by Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs of the Department of State Afreen Akhter.

The Ambassador of Sri Lanka in United States Mahinda Samarasinghe along with diplomatic officers of the Embassy of Sri Lanka and officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were also associated with the Foreign Minister at the meetings.