C’wealth games bid book presented to President

The bid book to be submitted to the Commonwealth Sports Conference seeking host status of the 2018 Commonwealth Games for Sri Lanka’s Hambantota City was presented to President Mahinda Rajapaksa by Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage at Temple Trees yesterday morning.

The bid book will be submitted to the Commonwealth Sports Conference held in Malaysia on May 11.

The President who paid special attention to the bid book said the Government would do its utmost to obtain 2018 Commonwealth Games host status to Sri Lanka, said a press release by the President’s Media Division, Foreign Employment Promotion and Welfare Minister Dilan Perera, Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga, Sports Ministry Secretary U.R. Seneviratne, Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal, Chief of Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal Roshan Goonetilleke, Commanders of the Army and Navy, the IGP and several other Central Bank officials were also present.