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In 1972, the country was renamed as the Free, Sovereign and Independent Republic of Sri Lanka, and the position was known as the prime minister of Sri Lanka from then onwards. The prime minister also held the unified Ministry of External Affairs and Defence until 1977, when the government of J. R. Jayewardene split the ministry into two ...
Visited on the invitation of Vietnamese prime minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc and Vietnamese President Trần Đại Quang. [11] Wickremesinghe cut the visit short by one day to return to Sri Lanka after the 2017 Meethotamulla landslide left 32 dead in Colombo. [12] 12 United States: New York City: 5–6 May The Ocean Conference
Prime Minister of Greece: 1987 Alan Garcia [42] Peru: President of Peru: 1988 J. R. Jayewardene [43] Sri Lanka: President of Sri Lanka: 2nd invitation Ramaswamy Venkataraman: 1989 Nguyễn Văn Linh [44] Vietnam: General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam: 1990 Anerood Jugnauth [45] Mauritius: Prime Minister of Mauritius: 2nd ...
The first internal security operation of the Ceylon Army, code-named Operation Monty, began in 1952 to counter the influx of illegal South Indian immigrants brought in by smugglers, in support of Royal Ceylon Navy coastal patrols and police operations. This was expanded and renamed as Task Force Anti-Illicit Immigration (TaFII) in 1963 and ...
The prime minister of Sri Lanka, officially the prime minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is the most senior member of parliament in the cabinet of ministers. It is the second-most powerful position in Sri Lanka's executive branch behind the president [failed verification], who is the constitutional chief executive.
[2] [4] Significantly, this included a number of C.W.W Kannangara's political colleagues, including D.S. Senanayake, the first Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. [ 2 ] [ 13 ] Kannangara spoke for six and a half hours to convince other members of the council to vote for the bill, and was supported in his efforts by H. W. Amarasuriya , Dudley ...
In 2010, on the 50th anniversary of Bandaranaike's election as the world's first female prime minister, Sri Lankan parliamentarian Rosy Senanayake told the press that Sri Lanka had not made significant progress towards gender equality in politics: only 4.5 per cent of parliamentarians were women.
In 1978 Jayewardene introduced a new constitution making Sri Lanka a presidential 'Democratic Socialist' republic, with himself as executive President The Constitution of Sri Lanka: Chapter I – The People, the State and Sovereignty. In 1980 he crushed a general strike by the trade-union movement, jailing its leaders.