On April 18, 2019 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation H.E. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka and Madame Sanja Jayatilleka paid a courtesy call on Igor Ivanov, President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), who was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in 1998 - 2004, and later Secretary of the Russian Security Council. Mr. Ivanov is a Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University), member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Science, member of Supervisory Council of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe and member of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation. Dr. Ivanov is the Hero of the Russian Federation and the recipient of state awards from Russia and foreign countries.

The guests were received at the headquarters of RIAC, a non-profit academic and diplomatic think tank, established by order of the President of the Russian Federation, with its mission to facilitate Russia's peaceful integration into the global community, providing greater cooperation between Russian scientific institutions and foreign analytical centers/scholars on the major topics of international relations.
Ambassador Jayatilleka and Dr. Igor Ivanov spoke about global political situation and history of international affairs and Russian foreign policy.
Dr. Ivanov is the author of a number of books and articles on the history of international relations and Russian foreign policy, published in the USA, Germany, China, Japan and other countries. At the end of the meeting Dr. Ivanov gave to Ambassador one of the latest articles of The Wall Street Journal titled 'The Threat of Nuclear War is still with Us' coauthored by George P.Shultz, William J. Perry and Sam Nunn.