report in The Island, Aug 6, 2023Japan has asked Sri Lanka to secure a debt restructure deal with China before any discussion on reviving the Light Rail Transit (LRT) project scrapped by former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, diplomatic sources said. Foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi made it clear during his brief visit to Colombo last week for talks with President Ranil Wickremesinghe that priority must be clinching a debt deal with Beijing before the end of August.…
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report in The Island, Aug 1, 2023Japan has sought Sri Lanka’s backing for its Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategy. Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa has taken up this issue with his Sri Lankan counterpart Ali Sabry, PC, when they met on 29th July. According to a statement issued by the Japanese Embassy, in Colombo, Minister Yoshimasa has also briefed Minister Sabry regarding Russia terminating an international agreement that allowed grain exports from Ukraine through…
By Imsha Iqbal in The Morning, Mar 30, 2023Despite the decades-long diplomatic and trade ties between the countries since 1952, Japanese businesses currently have lost confidence in Sri Lanka due to the abrupt and arbitrary policy changes that have been made by the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL), says the Ambassador for Japan in Sri Lanka Mizukoshi Hideaki. Ambassador Hideaki stated: “On the governance and transparency of the economic policies, in the past, there have…
report in The Island, Jan 1, 2023Sri Lanka is expecting companies from Japan, India, Japan, and New Fortress Energy of the US to jointly come up with a proposal to supply a liquified natural gas terminal, Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said.Sri Lanka is building two LNG-capable 300MW-sized combined cycle power plants but has no terminal to unload the fuel. Minister Wijesekera claimed that a combined cycle known as Yugadanavi was already capable of…