On March 1, 2019 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation H.E. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka had a productive luncheon discussion with Senator Konstantin Kosachev, PhD in Law, Russian politician and diplomat, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee at the Federation Council (Russian Parliament's uUpper House), who was the disciple and aide to the prominent Russian Foreign Minister, later Prime Minister and Academician Evgeny Primakov. Doctor Kosachev previously served as head of Rossotrudnichestvo (the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation).

On February 28, 2019, Ambassador of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation H. E. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka paid a visit to his Serbian counterpart, Ambassador H. E. Slavenko Terzić.

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