DEW acting External Affairs Minister
Good Governnance Senior Minister DEW Gunasekera has been appointed
the acting External Affairs Minister, Chief Government Whip Water Supply
and Drainage Minister Dinesh Gunawardena told Parliament yesterday.
Both External Minister Prof G.L. Peiris and his Deputy Neomal Perera
are abroad and in their absence, the President has appointed Senior
Minister Gunasekera to oversee the work of the Ministry of External
Affairs, the Chief Government Whip said.
UPFA Ratnapura District MP Ranjith De Soyza had raised a question
directed to the External Affairs Ministry.
Minister Gunawardena said that Senior Minister Gunsekera had been
appointed the acting External Affairs Minister therefore the latter was
in a position to present the response to the House.
Accordingly Senior Minister Gunasekera responded.
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