High Commission of Sri Lanka in India

Continuing the series of engagements with concurrently accredited Diplomatic Missions to Sri Lanka from New Delhi, High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India Milinda Moragoda interacted with a group of African Heads of Mission today (18), and briefed them on the present developments in Sri Lanka. The interaction was also to increase Sri Lanka’s engagement with the states in the African continent, particularly in trade and economic spheres. 

This group of Heads of Mission included two Ambassadors, two High Commissioners and five chargés d' affaires who are concurrently accredited or designated to Sri Lanka from New Delhi. A second group of African Heads of Mission is to be hosted at the next interactive session. 

The Government of Austria yesterday (16) donated to the Government of Sri Lanka a consignment of essential medicines worth of four million Sri Lankan Rupees. 

The consignment, containing 27 essential medicines, which are urgently required in the country, was handed over to the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India Milinda Moragoda by the Chargé d’Affaires a.i. of the Embassy of Austria in New Delhi Matthias Radosztics at the Sri Lanka High Commission. The Austrian Embassy in New Delhi is concurrently accredited to Sri Lanka. 

Addressing the students and the faculty of the university, High Commissioner Moragoda extended his warm congratulations to them on the landmark anniversary of India's independence.

Speaking on the legacy based on age-old relations between Sri Lanka and India, he also referred to the fact that year 2022 marks the 80th  anniversary of establishment of official relations between Sri Lanka and India in 1942 with the former sending Sir. D.B. Jayatilaka as its representative to India. 

Further strengthening the engagement with the State of Tamil Nadu and as a follow-up to the meeting with its Chief Minister in early June, Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda met with Lok Sabha MP for Thoothukkudi constituency, Kanimozhi Karunanidhi today (4) in New Delhi.

Parliamentarian Kanimozhi Karunanidhi is the daughter of the former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M. Karunanidhi and sister of the present Chief Minister M.K. Stalin. She is in New Delhi attending the monsoon session of the Parliament.