1 October, 2017
Speaker Karu Jayasuriya led a multiparty Sri Lankan parliamentary delegation, on an official visit to Washington D.C. last week, (September 28). The Sri Lankan delegation met with the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Paul Ryan at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday.
The visiting multiparty delegation includes, Minister of Transport & Civil Aviation Nimal Siripala de Silva, State Minister of Irrigation & Water Resources Management Palitha Range Bandara, Members of Parliament Vijitha Herath, Kumara Welgama and M.A. Sumanthiran, and Deputy Secretary General of Parliament Neil Iddawala. Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Prasad Kariyawasam and U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka Atul Keshap are also in the picture.