Mission to Sri Lanka

A two-member ICDP delegation, Commissioner Ivan Šimonović and Policy Director Rajiv Narayan, participated in a mission to Sri Lanka between 18-22 June 2019.

Interlocutors that the ICDP delegates had meetings with included:

- Speaker Karu Jayasuriya.

- Finance Minister and former Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera.

- Minister of Justice Thalatha Atukorale.

- Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka Professor Deepika Udagama.

- Director of Foreign Affairs Krishanti Weerakoon and Additional Secretary of Legal Affairs Luckshmi Jayawickrema in Presidential Secretariat.

- Director General of UN and Legal at the Foreign Ministry Shobini Gunasekhara.

- President Counsel JC Weliamuna.

- Executive Director of Centre for Policy Analysis Dr Pakiasothy Saravanamuttu.

- Ambassadors from Germany, Switzerland, the EU, Turkey, France, Canada, senior diplomats from Germany, Norway, the UK, Australia.