Sri Lanka's External Affairs Minister, GL Peiris, slammed any notion of foreign intervention in Sri Lanka, whilst speaking at an event to mark the start of Sri Lanka's 'National Policy on Social Integration'.

Dismissing foreign intervention in what he described as Sri Lanka's 'internal affairs', Peiris said:

The United States Embassy in Colombo has announced that the country has been providing training to Sri Lanka’s Navy and Coast Guard as part of improving the island’s “border security”.

20 Sri Lankan Coast Guard Officers and 4 Sri Lankan Navy Officers had graduated as Coast Guard instructors who could go on to train other members, after training funded by the US Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) program.

The Sri Lankan Air Force has opened a new office of its commercial wing in Jaffna.

Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr has rejected demands that Australia should boycott the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka.

The Foreign Minister claims he has not seen any evidence that the Sri Lankan government deliberately killed Tamil civilians.

"Any suggestion of a boycott would be counter-productive. It would simply isolate the country and render it defiant of international opinion," he told ABC.

Sri Lanka's president Mahinda Rajapaksa had a special service for him at Temple Trees on the Buddhist festival of Bak Poya Day on Friday.

Sri Lanka’s External Affairs Minister GL Peiris and High Commissioner in the United Kingdom Chris Nonis, met with Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma at Marlborough House in London, after Sharma confirmed the upcoming Commonwealth Heads Of Government meeting would controversially be held in Sri Lanka.