Next round of US-Sri Lanka Partnership Dialogue next month in Colombo

Finance and Media Minister Mangala Samaraweera, who is currently in Washington to attend the World Bank/IMF annual meeting, met with the US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Ambassador Thomas Shannon on Tuesday at the US State Department.

Ambassador Shannon will visit Sri Lanka in November 2017 to take part in the next round of the US-Sri Lanka Partnership Dialogue, which was inaugurated in 2016 when Samaraweera was the Minister of Foreign Affairs, for a regular policy consultation designed to discuss and identify opportunities for cooperation across the full range of bilateral and regional issues.

The Partnership Dialogue demonstrates the consolidation of cooperation between the US and Sri Lanka and serves to further strengthen and enhance bilateral relations in the widest sense, through regular and structured engagement.

Samaraweera  was accompanied by Senior Adviser to the Minister of Finance Mano Tittawella, Charge d’ Affaires of the Sri Lanka Embassy in the US Prof. Gamini B. Keerawella and Priyanga Wickramasinghe of the Sri Lankan Embassy in the US.