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    Prasad Kariyawasam, New Foreign Ministry Secretary Featured

    August 17, 2017

    Following his appointment by President Maithripala Sirisena on 29th July as the Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prasad Kariyawasam assumed duties on 15th August at the ministry.

    Mr. Kariyawasam joined the Sri Lanka Foreign Service in 1981. Prior to his appointment as Secretary, he served as the Ambassador for Sri Lanka to the United States of America from July 2014 to August 2017. He has held diplomatic assignments in Geneva, Riyadh, Washington, New York and New Delhi, and has served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in New York and Geneva and High Commissioner to India.  

     

    He has been previously concurrently accredited as Ambassador / High Commissioner to Chile, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, the Bahamas, Jamaica, the Holy See, Bhutan and Afghanistan.

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