Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Ameer Ajwad presents open copies of Credentials

Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Omar Lebbe Ameer Ajwad presented open copies of his Credentials to the Deputy Minister of Protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Abdul Majeed bin Rashed Al Samary, at the Saudi Foreign Ministry headquarters in Riyadh on 2 June.

Deputy Minister Abdul Majeed extended a warm welcome to Ambassador Ameer Ajwad and wished him a fruitful assignment in the Kingdom. In response, while expressing his greetings Ambassador Ameer Ajwad underlined the growing momentum in the bilateral relations between Sri Lanka and Saudi Arabia and highlighted the achievement of 50 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries that falls this year.

Ambassador Omar Lebbe Ameer Ajwad is a career diplomat with 26 years of experience in the Sri Lanka Diplomatic Service. Prior to his appointment as Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, he served as the Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka in charge of the Ministry’s Action Planning, Implementation, and Performance Review including Bilateral Treaties; Political Affairs (Africa Region); Consular Affairs; as well as Emergency Response Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka. He has also served as the Head of Policy Planning, Research and Human Resources Development as well as Overseas Administration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Ambassador Ameer Ajwad has served as Sri Lanka’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Sultanate of Oman with the concurrent accreditation to the Republic of Yemen from 2019 to 2022. His diplomatic assignments entailed in Singapore as Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner (Actg.) (2018 – 2019) with the concurrent accreditation to Brunei Darussalam, Deputy High Commission of Sri Lanka in Chennai, India (2011 – 2015), the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland (2005 – 2009) and the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Riyadh, KSA (2000 – 2003). 

Ambassador Ameer Ajwad has represented Sri Lanka at numerous international and regional conferences. He has also served as a member of many National Advisory Committees including National Committee for Official Languages Policy Implementation (NCOLPI) of Sri Lanka, National Advisory Committee on Migration for Employment (NACME), and the Executive Committee of the National Disaster Management Coordination Committee (NDMCC) of Sri Lanka. 

He holds a Master’s Degree in Laws (LL.M) from the University of Colombo, Bachelor’s Degree in Arts (BA) from the University of Peradeniya and a Bachelor’s Degree in Laws (LL.B) from the University of Colombo. He was admitted to the Bar as an Attorney- at- Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in 1997. 

 He recently authored a book on international relations titled: “Sri Lanka – Oman Relations: Past, Present and Future.” He speaks English, Arabic, Sinhala and Tamil languages.