{"id":1228,"date":"2026-05-14T10:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T10:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2026-05-14T10:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T10:38:21","slug":"sri-lanka-belarus-relations-strengthened-during-vijitha-heraths-official-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/14\/sri-lanka-belarus-relations-strengthened-during-vijitha-heraths-official-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2013Belarus Relations Strengthened During Vijitha Herath\u2019s Official Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vijitha Herath is currently on an official visit to Belarus. During the visit, he held bilateral discussions in Minsk with Belarus Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov and senior officials of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Representing Sri Lanka in these discussions were Sri Lanka\u2019s Ambassador-designate to the Russian Federation Shobini Gunasekera, Director General for Europe and North America Sukeeshwara Gunaratne, along with other government officials.<\/p>\n<p>Following the bilateral talks, the foreign ministers of Sri Lanka and Belarus jointly issued a statement emphasizing the mutual commitment of both countries to further strengthen cooperation across various sectors.<\/p>\n<p>This visit marks the first high-level visit from Sri Lanka to Belarus after more than a decade, creating renewed momentum and progress in relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>During the discussions, several Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) were also signed. These agreements are expected to serve as a strong foundation for expanding bilateral relations and cooperation between Sri Lanka and Belarus in the coming years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vijitha Herath is currently on an official visit to Belarus. During the visit, he held bilateral discussions in Minsk with Belarus Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov and senior officials of the country. Representing Sri Lanka in these discussions were Sri Lanka\u2019s Ambassador-designate to the Russian Federation Shobini Gunasekera, Director General for Europe and North America Sukeeshwara &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}