Ambassador-Designates Cleared High Posts Comm.

COLOMBO (News 1st); All Ambassador-designates who met with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake recently have received clearance from the Parliamentary Committee on High Posts, enabling them to assume their respective diplomatic postings.

The appointments include:

Dharshana M. Perera as High Commissioner-designate to Malaysia

D.M.S.P. Dassanayake as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in Geneva

Dayani Mendis as Ambassador and Permanent Representative-designate of Sri Lanka to Austria

S.P.W. Pathirana as Ambassador-designate of Sri Lanka to Romania

N.I.D. Paranavitana as Ambassador and Permanent Representative-designate of Sri Lanka to Ethiopia and the African Union

S. K. Chandrasiri as Ambassador-designate of Sri Lanka to Israel

Dhammika Fernando as High Commissioner-designate of Sri Lanka to Kenya

Anura Withanage as Ambassador-designate of Sri Lanka to Lebanon; 

Prof. M.I. Fazeeha Azmi as Ambassador-designate of Sri Lanka to Iran

M. Farook M. Fawzer as Representative-designate of Sri Lanka to Palestine.