List of ambassadors of Sri Lanka to China
The Sri Lankan Ambassador to China is the Sri Lankan envoy to the People's Republic of China. He is concurrently accredited as Ambassador to Mongolia and North Korea. The current ambassador is Dr. Karunasena Kodituwakku.[1]
| Ambassador of Sri Lanka to China | |
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Incumbent Palitha Kohona since 14 April 2021 | |
| Inaugural holder | Claude Corea |
| Formation | 8 September 1956 |
The Sri Lankan ambassador in Beijing is the official representative of the Government in Colombo to the Government of the People's Republic of China and concurrently accredited in Pyongyang (North Korea) and Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia).
List of representatives
| Diplomatic agrément/Diplomatic accreditation | Ambassador | Observations | List of prime ministers of Sri Lanka | Premier of the People's Republic of China | Term end |
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| 8 September 1956 | Claude Corea | Special Ambassador to China, at the head of a Ceylon Government Delegation that was to have preliminary discussions with the Government of the People's Republic of China regarding the establishment of diplomatic relations, trade expansion, economic co-operation and cultural exchanges. | S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike | Zhou Enlai | |
| February 1957 | Wilmot A. Perera | In February 1957 Wilmot A. Perera was appointed Sri Lanka's first ambassador to China. | S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike | Zhou Enlai | |
| 1958 | William Gopallawa | S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike | Zhou Enlai | 1961 | |
| 1961 | Alwin Bernard Perea | Sirimavo Bandaranaike | Zhou Enlai | 1963 | |
| 1964 | Stephen Frederick de Silva | Sirimavo Bandaranaike | Zhou Enlai | 1965 | |
| 1965 | Don Benjamin Rupasinghe Gunawardena | Robert Gunawardena, Ceylon has no Ambassador in Hanoi or Saigon, but Mr. Gunawardena was received in Hanoi. | Dudley Shelton Senanayake | Zhou Enlai | 1970 |
| 1969 | Yogendra Duraiswamy | Chargé d'affaires | Dudley Shelton Senanayake | Zhou Enlai | |
| 1970 | R.L.A.I. Karannagoda | In a conversion with the Ceylonese Ambassador in Beijing, I. A. Karannagoda, Zhou Enlai, disavowed the 'Guearists'. | Sirimavo Bandaranaike | Zhou Enlai | 1977 |
| 1978 | Chitra Raja Dias Desinghe | Ranasinghe Premadasa | Hua Guofeng | 1979 | |
| 31 May 1980 | Chithambaranathan Mahendran |
| Ranasinghe Premadasa | Zhao Ziyang | 1983 |
| 1984 | Kandage Newton Samarasinghe | Ranasinghe Premadasa | Zhao Ziyang | ||
| 1993 | Wilhelm Woutersz | Ranil Wickremesinghe | Li Peng | 1997 | |
| 12 November 1997 | Rodney Vandergert | Sirimavo Bandaranaike | Li Peng | 2000 | |
| 2002 | Bernard Anton Bandara Goonetilleke [de] | Mahinda Rajapaksa | Wen Jiabao | 2004 | |
| 2008 | Karunatilaka Amunugama | Ratnasiri Wickremanayake | Wen Jiabao | 16 August 2011 | |
| 16 August 2011 | Ranjit Uyangoda | D. M. Jayaratne | Wen Jiabao | 2015 | |
| 2015 | Karunasena Kodituwakku | Ranil Wickremesinghe | Li Keqiang |
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See also
References
- ^ embassy of the democratic socialist republic of sri lanka beijing china, [1]
- ^ Wolfgang Bartke [es], The diplomatic service of the People's Republic of China as of November 1984, German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 1985, 120 p. p.112
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