Tag: Ranil Wickremesinghe

Ranil Wickremesinghe told Daily Mirror: “There maybe provisions which you may want to alter when the government changes but you should never cancel it. That is bad.”

The United National Party (UNP) Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe will continue to hold on to the party’s leadership post for at least six more months on the unofficial request of party members and organisers, cancelling the party’s earlier plan of appointing a new leader in January, the Daily Mirror learns.

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Colombo, Jan 4 (NIA) - Sri Lanka's former President Mahinda Rajapakse, on Wednesday charged that he would topple the government while Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was in the country. Rajapakse was responding to a 'humorous' statement made by Wickremesinghe recently where he said Rajapakse could topple the government when he visits Switzerland next week. However, Rajapakse in a tweet on ...

Colombo, Jan 4 (NIA) - Sri Lanka's Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, on Wednesday remained firm that his government would give an 80 percent stake of the Hambantota Port to a Chinese company in order to convert an existing loan which was taken by the previous government, into a stake. However Wickremesinghe insisted that no land had been sold to China ...

Colombo, Jan 2 (NIA) - Sri Lanka's Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, on Monday responding to former President Mahinda Rajapakse's threats that the government would be toppled this year, said in a humorous tone that Rajapakse could topple the government when he visits Switzerland next week. "I am going to Switzerland for a week, giving Mahinda the chance to bring the government down," Wickremesinghe said. ...

Colombo, Dec 23 (NIA) - Hundreds of workers in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo are racing against time to unveil the 'World's Tallest Christmas Tree' which is scheduled to be ready by Saturday evening. Officials involved told NIA that workers would work throughout Friday and Saturday in order to complete the tree by Christmas eve. "We will have an official unveiling ceremony by ...

Colombo, Oct 12 (NIA) - Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, will leave for Brussels on Saturday to begin talks on restoring key trade concessions from the EU which were withdrawn from Sri Lanka during the previous regime. Wickremesinghe told journalists here on Wednesday that Sri Lanka had already filed an application to regain the GSP plus trade concessions and ...

Colombo, Oct 4 (NIA) - Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickramamsinghe has called for greater economic and trade links among Commonwealth nations after the Britain's decision to exit the European Union, the EconomyNext reported here on Tuesday. "The time has now come to think of a new arrangement to strengthen economic and trade link among members of the British Commonwealth", Wickremesinghe ...

New Zealand/Sri Lanka, Oct 1 (NIA) - New Zealand and Sri Lanka will establish high commissions in each other’s countries, the Prime Minister John Key says. Key was speaking at a joint news conference with his Sri Lankan counterpart, Ranil Wickremesinghe, in Auckland this morning. Mr Key said Mr Wickremsinghe’s visit to New Zealand - the first by a Sri ...