Sri Lanka's ministry of foreign affairs opened a new consular office in Jaffna on Thursday, with the foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera, the leader of the Tamil National Alliance, R Sampanthan and the chief minister of the northern province, C V Wigneswaran attending.
The office will provide services ranging from attestation of birth, marriage and death certificates as well as educational certificates for their use abroad; extending assistance to family members of Sri Lankans who may be stranded abroad; facilitation of redress and compensation claims of families of migrant workers; and repatriation of human remains from abroad, the ministry said.
The office, located on Kandy Road in Jaffna, will be open Monday to Friday 8.30 to 4.15pm.