INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Fourteen new ambassadors and high commissioners concurrently accredited to Sri Lanka presented their credentials to President
MaithripalaSirisena at the President House in Colombo today.
The Envoys who presented credentials are:
Mlondi Solomon Dlamini, High
Commissioner of the Kingdom of EswatiniFrancois Delhaye, Ambassador of the Kingdom of BelgiumMakarimi Abissola Adechoubou, Ambassador of the
Republic of BeninCarlos Jose de Pinho e Melo Pereira Marques, Ambassador of the Portuguese RepublicMuhamed Cenqic, Ambassador of Bosnia -
HerzegovinaAhmed Yousif Mohamed Elsiddig, Ambassador of the Republic of SudanFatoumata Balde, Ambassador of the Republic of GuineaGabriel
Pandureni Sinimbo, High Commissioner of the Republic of NamibiaDionyssios Kyvetos, Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic (Greece)Juan Rolando
Angulo, Ambassador of the Republic of ChileEleonora Dimitrova Dimitrova, Ambassador of the Republic of BulgariaBrendan Ward, Ambassador of
IrelandCoromoto Godoy Calderon, Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of VenezuelaTizita Mulugeta, Ambassador of the Federal Democratic
Republic of Ethiopia.
While, High Commissioner of the Kingdom of Eswatini is based in Kuala Lumpur and Ambassador of the Republic of Benin
is based in Tokyo, all others are based in New Delhi.Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tilak Marapana and Secretary to the President, Udaya R
Seniviratne were also present on this occasion.