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Sri Lanka to open Consulate in Milan
The Sri Lanka Government has made arrangements to open a Consulate General office in Milan, Italy from 1 February, to serve the country’s large expatriate community there.
The Sri Lankan community in Milan is one of the largest in Northern Italy. Milan is Italy’s second leading city with a metropolitan population of 1.3 million and one of the major financial centres in Europe. Milan is also home to among the largest consular corps in the world, with 128 different countries having resident offices.
A consulate in Milan has been a long-felt need for the Sri Lankan community in northern Italy, with consular services in Northern Italy previously being carried out by a mobile consular service by the Sri Lanka Embassy in Rome. The establishment of a Consulate General office now provides the expatriate members of the Sri Lankan community with much needed assistance and services.
Accordingly, all requests for consular services from those residing in the regions of Lombardy, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Liguria, Piedmont, Trentino Alto Adige, Valle d’ Aosta and Veneto in Italy, will be handled by the Consulate General Office in Milan.
Ms. Pradeepa Saram has been appointed as the Consul General. She is a member of the Sri Lanka Foreign Service batch of 1998 and has served in Sri Lanka missions in the United Arab Emirates, Germany and the United Kingdom and was the former Acting Director General of the Consular Affairs Division of the Foreign Ministry.
The address of the Consulate General of Sri Lanka is Via Francesco Melzi d’Eril, 34, 20154, Milan, Italy.
