Bandaranaike International Diplomatic Training Institute (BIDTI) is the institute in
Colombo where
Sri Lanka Overseas Service officers are trained. The Institute functions under
Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies, with itself coming under the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs In many countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the government department responsible for the state's diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral relations affairs as well as for providing support for a country's citizens who are abroad. The entit ...
,
Government of Sri Lanka
The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) ( si, ශ්රී ලංකා රජය, Śrī Lankā Rajaya; ta, இலங்கை அரசாங்கம்) is a parliamentary system determined by the Sri Lankan Constitution. It administers the is ...
. Its current Director-General is Pamela J Deen and it is situated within the grounds of the
(BMICH) in Colombo.
Established 1994 with veteran diplomat
Dr Vernon Mendis
Deshamanya Dr Vernon Loraine Benjamin Mendis (5 December 1925 – 23 June 2010) was a prominent Sri Lankan diplomat, who served as the United Nations' Special Envoy to the Middle East. He is referred to as the ''Sri Lanka's Father of Diploma ...
as its funding director-general, the BIDTI was designed in the first instance to provide a training programme to recruits to the Sri Lanka Overseas Service. Later it broaden its training programs to cover
diplomacy and
international relations, currently these causes are also open to the public too. Under the Sri Lanka Institute of Strategic Studies (Amendment) Act No. 32 of 2006 the BIDTI was vested in the
Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies (LKIIRSS) and was deemed to function as the training arm of the institute.
External links
Official website
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Government agencies of Sri Lanka
Schools of international relations