President Mahinda Rajapaksa, along with First Lady Shiranthi Wickramasinghe Rajapaksa, left this morning on a five-day official visit to New York.
President Rajapaksa is leading the Sri Lankan delegation to the 68th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) which will be held at the UN Head Quarters, New York on Tuesday (24). He will be one of the world leaders who will address the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA),
This is the sixth time the President is attending the UNGA. President’s first address to the UNGA was in 2006 and the last was in 2011.
President Rajapaksa is also scheduled to participate in a number of bilateral discussions with the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma and several heads-of-state from Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
The Minister of External Affairs Prof. G.L. Peiris, Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Management Nimal Siripala de Silva, Minister of Youth Affairs and Skills Development Dullas Alahapperuma, Monitoring MP of the Ministry of External Affairs Sajin De Vaas Gunawardene, Member of Parliament Lohan Ratwatte and Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga are accompanying President Rajapaksa on the visit.
