The Sri Lankan High Commissioner to

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is the

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to Canada. Countries belonging to the

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typically exchange High Commissioners, rather than

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s. Though there are a few technical differences (for instance, whereas Ambassadors present their diplomatic credentials to the host country's

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, High Commissioners are accredited to the

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), they are in practice one and the same office. Sri Lanka also maintains a Consul-General in

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High Commissioners

Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera, OBE, JP, (8 November 1899 – 23 April 1973) was a Sri Lankan academic, scholar and diplomat best known for his Malalasekara English-Sinhala Dictionary. He was the Ceylon's first Ambassador to the Soviet Unio ...

– (1961 - 1963) * L. S. B. Perera - (around 1967) *

William de Silva Peduru Hewage William de Silva (8 December 1908 – 30 July 1988) was a 20th-century Marxist/Trotskyist Sri Lankan politician.

– (1970 – ?) * Velupillai Coomaraswamy – * Henry Thambiah – (September 1975 – December 1977) *

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 Diplomacy ...

– (December 1977 – 1980) *

Rodney Vandergert Rodney Clement Austen Vandergert (11 May 1935 – 4 May 2009) was a prominent Sri Lankan diplomat and civil servant, who served as the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka and Chairman of the Public Service Commissi ...

– (1980 – 1983) *

Ernest Corea Ernest Corea (1932–11 May 2017) was a Sri Lankan journalist and a diplomat noted for his work to maintain a free and independent press and for negotiations involving Sri Lanka's development programs. Early life Corea was born in 1932 in Col ...

(12 August 1983 – 1986) *

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Tissa Weeratunga General Tissa Indraka Weeratunga, VSV (August 29, 1930 – November 2003) was a Sri Lankan senior army officer. He was a former Commander of the Sri Lankan Army (1981 – 1985) and first General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the Joint Oper ...

– (1986–1990) *

Asoka Weerasinghe Asoka Weerasinghe (born in Sri Lanka), was a former deputy High Commissioner for Sri Lanka in Canada. Early life Asoka was educated at Nalanda College Colombo, Sri Lanka. Poetry His poem "Trail of Mankind" was adopted as the storyline for Canad ...

* P. B. G. Kalugalla – *

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- (1990–1993) * Walter E. Fernando -(1993–1996) * Ananda Gunasekera -(1996–1999) * W. J. S. Karunaratne – (13 June 2006 – ?) *

Daya Perera Lt. Colonel Daya Perera, PC (died June 16, 2013) was a Sri Lankan diplomat and lawyer, who was the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to the United Nations in New York City. Education Educated at Royal College Colombo, Perer ...

– (2008–2010) * Chitranganee Wagiswara – (2010–2014) * Ahmed Aflel Jawad – (2015–2018) * Asoka Girihagama – (2018–Present)

References

The High Commission of Sri Lanka
{{Ambassadors of Sri Lanka *

High Commissioners

See also

References