Sri Lankan president to visit Philippines Jan 15-19

January 10, 2019

On the invitation of President Rodrigo Duterte,  Maithripala Sirisena, President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, will undertake a state visit to the Philippines from  January 15 to 19, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).

Sirisena will meet with Duterte on January 16 to hold bilateral discussions on areas of mutual interest, including political, economic, cultural and people-to-people engagement.

While in Manila, Sirisena is scheduled to visit the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Baños.

The visit is the first by a Sri Lankan president serving as head of state and government under Sri Lanka’s 1978 Constitution, and the second by a Sri Lankan leader since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1961. DMS