Speaking at the Progress Review Meeting on Aluth Gamek, Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardene, slammed trade unions and claimed that their “vengeful demands” were undermining the rights of workers, the right to unionise and workers’ bargaining power.

Speaking at the inauguration of a new exhibition dedicated to Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa, India’s external affairs minister, S Jaishankar, reiterated India’s ongoing support for Sri Lanka during its economic crisis.

The leader of the Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF), Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, has called on the Sri Lankan state to reveal the amount they had paid to the British mercenary organisation known as Keenie Meenie Services (KMS) to support their suppression of the Tamil armed resistance.

Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister, Ali Sabry, is set to journey to London to attend the Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers’ Meeting (CFAMM) next Wednesday, where he is expected to meet several international dignitaries.

US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung, has stressed that Local Government elections are critical for Sri Lanka's democracy.

Chung spoke as the Chief Guest at the National Law Conference organized by the Bar Association of Sri Lanka in Colombo on 12 March. 

Speaking in Sri Lanka’s parliament on Thursday, Sri Lanka’s State Minister of Tourism, Diana Gamage, encouraged violence against student demonstrators to end their protests.

Marcia V. J. Kran, Canadian lawyer and expert member of the UN Human Rights Committee, pressed Sri Lanka delegate Major General Kulatunga about his role in overseeing the Joseph Camp in Vavuniya, plagued with allegations of torture, and the Army Court’s denial of war crimes. 

Sri Lankan police have arrested the head of the Association of Relatives of the Disappeared, Kasipillai Jayavanitha, for allegedly illegally obtaining electricity for the shed which has served as the base for their six-year-long protest.

British MP and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Tamils (APPGT), Elliot Colburn, has written to the UN Human Rights Committee to urge the committee to question the attendance of Maj. General Kulatunga during its 6th-period review and noted his role in overseeing the Joseph Camp in Vavuniya.

Sri Lanka’s Chief of National Intelligence, and accused war criminal, Ruwan Kulatunga, is to virtually attend the UN Human Rights Committee’s 6^th periodic review, on behalf of the government despite concern over his human rights record.

Sri Lanka's Election Commission have announced April 25, 2023 as a possible date for the local government elections to take place after they were postponed last month. 

Sri Lanka is close to securing the $2.9 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after China gave its assurances that it will support the island's debt restructuring.