{"id":82217,"date":"2018-10-22T12:59:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T19:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=82217"},"modified":"2018-10-22T12:59:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T19:59:46","slug":"visit-of-the-sri-lanka-swiss-parliamentary-friendship-association-to-switzerland-14-20-october-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/10\/22\/visit-of-the-sri-lanka-swiss-parliamentary-friendship-association-to-switzerland-14-20-october-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit of the Sri Lanka &#8211; Swiss Parliamentary Friendship Association to Switzerland, 14-20\u00a0October 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Sri Lanka Permanent Mission\u00a0 Geneva<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A delegation of Members of Parliament representing the Sri Lanka &#8211; Swiss Parliamentary Friendship Association (SLSPFA) visited Geneva on 18 October 2018, continuing with a\u00a0week-long\u00a0 programme of\u00a0visit to Switzerland from 14 to 20 October 2018.\u00a0 The multi-party delegation, led by Hon. Ananda Kumarasiri, Deputy Speaker\u00a0of the Sri Lanka Parliament, comprised Hon. Jayampathy\u00a0WICKRAMARATNE,\u00a0 the SLSPFA President, as well as\u00a0Hon. Seenithamby YOHESWARAN, Hon. J.C. ALAWATHUWALA, Hon. Edward GUNASEKARA, Hon. Dr. Sudarshini FERNANDOPULLE, Hon. Prof. Ashu MARASINGHE, Hon. Bimal RATHNAYAKE, Hon. Charles NIRMALANTHAN, Hon. K.K. PIYADASA, Hon. K. Sujith PERERA and Hon. Ishak RAHUMAN.<\/p>\n<p>At the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka, the Members of Parliament were warmly welcomed by Ambassador A.L.A Azeez and Mission&#8217;s staff and were hosted to a high tea reception.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/swisstelegation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/swisstelegation.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/swisstelegation-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The delegation&#8217;s programme in Geneva included meetings with the officials and experts of the Geneva International Center for\u00a0Humanitarian Demining GICHD, the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP),\u00a0the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. They also visited the United Nations Office in Geneva, following which they were hosted to lunch by Permanent Representative of Switzerland in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>In the capital city of Bern and other cities they visited, the delegation engaged with\u00a0Members of Parliament and high officials of Switzerland on a wide range of matters of bilateral significance. They also\u00a0familiarized with the workings\u00a0of the Swiss democratic institutions and the cantonal system, as well as development cooperation and trade, investment and migration policies of Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka Permanent Mission<\/p>\n<p>Geneva<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka Permanent Mission\u00a0 Geneva A delegation of Members of Parliament representing the Sri Lanka &#8211; Swiss Parliamentary Friendship Association (SLSPFA) visited Geneva on 18 October 2018, continuing with a\u00a0week-long\u00a0 programme of\u00a0visit to Switzerland from 14 to 20 October 2018.\u00a0 The multi-party delegation, led by Hon. Ananda Kumarasiri, Deputy Speaker\u00a0of the Sri Lanka Parliament, comprised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82217","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=82217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}