with Africa Revitalized Africa Policy to Guide Sri Lanka’s Engagement

Foreign Secretary Ravinatha Aryasinha has said the operationalization of the recently developed ‘Revitalized Africa Policy’, seeks to enhance Sri Lanka’s cooperation in the political, economic and cultural spheres across Africa. Among the envisaged measures for closer engagement are the expansion of Sri Lanka’s diplomatic presence in Africa, stronger and mutually productive economic collaboration, revitalization of the historic people to people links and close cooperation in multilateral fora and regional organizations.

The policy document aims to optimize the strategic linkages through proximity to the Indian Ocean, centrality of Sri Lanka’s location, and cooperation through the 54 member-African Union (AU), where Sri Lanka received Observer Status in 2014.

Aryasinha made these observations last week when he addressed a representative group of scholars at the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs in Cairo, presided over by Ambassador Mounir Zahran, Chairman of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs on the theme ‘Sri Lanka – Egypt Relations and Strengthening Sri Lanka’s Relations with the African Continent’.

This was also the focus of a television discussion the Secretary participated in with ‘Nile TV’, a cable network that broadcasts across Africa. The Foreign Secretary was in Cairo for the Inaugural Session of the Bilateral Political Consultations between Sri Lanka and Egypt.

Some of the African countries such as Eritrea , South Africa, Mauritius are supporting LTTE Tamil terrorists’ separatisms to divide Sri Lanka with Tamil diaspora.

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