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The Foreign Secretary’s visit to Nepal at a time the country is about to promulgate a new constitution is termed here as “significant”.

Nepal’s three major political parties are determined to get the constitution passed this week and had invited protesting parties and groups for weekend talks.

US was at the forefront in adopting a total of three resolutions at the UN human rights session on Sri Lanka and today’s announcement marks a complete shift in US’ stance.

Atul Keshap, the new US envoy to Sri Lanka presented his credentials to President Maithripala Sirisena on August 21, the US embassy said.

India views the outcome of Sri Lankan Parliamentary Elections as a huge blow to the “string of pearls” strategy of China, which had built the Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka as part of its Maritime Silk Road initiative.

Sri Lanka’s ruling United National Party won the most seats in the elections, blocking former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s attempt to return to power.

The victory of the coalition of parties with the ungainly name of United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) led by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in Monday’s General Election will ensure that the changes brought about at the Presidential Election of January...

The Sri Lankan electorate has voted to sustain the changes that have taken place since the presidential election of January 8, when the common opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena scored a surprise victory over Mahinda Rajapaksa.

“I also wish to extend my heartfelt thanks to all the activists and the people’s representatives of our party who worked indefatigably in the election campaign”, he added.

Many other such projects will be also checked and investigated. Let us discard the old fashioned politics. Now the island nation is concentrated on him once more.

“I offer my grateful thanks to all parties and individuals who worked untiringly during the election period to ensure victory for the people“, Wickremesinghe said in a statement.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe urged Sri Lanka’s parties on Wednesday to work together as he began forming a new government backed by minority Tamils after a surge in support for his reform-driven agenda in parliamentary elections.

“I am conceding. We have lost a good fight”, said former Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

However, with only one of 22 districts having declared, the shape of the next parliament remains unclear and Rajapaksa’s comments to Reuters stopped short of an outright concession.

In his letter, which President Sirisena had sent in his capacity as Chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), he has noted that there were several seniors in the SLFP who deserved the prime ministerial position in the event of a UPFA win.