{"id":112226,"date":"2021-03-02T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T23:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=112226"},"modified":"2021-03-02T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T23:14:08","slug":"newly-appointed-sri-lanka-ambassador-to-the-kingdom-of-thailand-mrs-c-a-chaminda-i-colonne-assumes-duties-at-the-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/03\/02\/newly-appointed-sri-lanka-ambassador-to-the-kingdom-of-thailand-mrs-c-a-chaminda-i-colonne-assumes-duties-at-the-embassy\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly appointed Sri Lanka Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand Mrs. C. A. Chaminda I. Colonne assumes duties at the Embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Embassy of Sri Lanka\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Bangkok, Thailand<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The newly appointed Sri Lanka Ambassador to\nthe Kingdom of Thailand Mrs. C. A. Chaminda I. Colonne assumed duties today, 01<sup>st<\/sup>\nMarch 2021, at the Sri Lanka Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand [concurrently accredited\nto the Kingdom of Cambodia, Lao People\u2019s Democratic Republic and the United Nations\nEconomic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the occasion Buddhist, Hindu,\nChristian and Islamic religious observances were conducted by Ven. Prof. Walmoruwe\nPiyarathna Thero, Rev. Krishnamoorthy Sivasubramanian, Rev. Worawut Saraphan and\nRev. Sittirath Wacharapisudhi respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chaminda Colonne is a career diplomat, who\njoined the Sri Lankan Foreign Service in 1998. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to being appointed as Ambassador to\nthe Kingdom of Thailand, she served as Director General of the Middle East of\nthe Foreign Ministry (2018-2021) and Director General of Middle East and Africa\nof the Ministry of Foreign Relations (2016-2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her posts in Sri Lanka included, Director\nGeneral of Africa (2011-2013), Director of Africa (2008-2011) of the Ministry\nof External Affairs, Deputy Director of Economic Affairs (2004-2005), Deputy\nDirector of Consular Affairs (2003-2004) and Assistant Director of Political\nAffairs &#8211; East (1998-2000) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her overseas posts included Minister\/Deputy\nChief of Mission of the Sri Lanka Embassy in Berlin, Germany with concurrent\naccreditation to Switzerland (2013-2016), Counsellor of Sri Lanka High\nCommission in New Delhi, India (2005-2008) and First Secretary \/ Second\nSecretary of the Sri Lanka Embassy in Moscow, Russia (2000-2003).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During her tenure as Counsellor at the Sri\nLanka High Commission in New Delhi, she also served as the Secretary of the\nIndia- Sri Lanka Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She holds a Bachelor of Science (Zoology\nSpecial) from the University of Colombo and served as a member of academic\nstaff of the Faculty of Science, University of Colombo (1996-1998), prior to\njoining the Sri Lanka Foreign Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is also a past pupil of Visakha\nVidyalaya, Colombo, Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is married to Mr. Stephen Senanayake, a\nSri Lanka Government officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her hobbies include bird watching, preservation\nof wildlife, biodiversity and archeological sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embassy of Sri Lanka\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Bangkok, Thailand The newly appointed Sri Lanka Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand Mrs. C. A. Chaminda I. Colonne assumed duties today, 01st March 2021, at the Sri Lanka Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand [concurrently accredited to the Kingdom of Cambodia, Lao People\u2019s Democratic Republic and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}