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“I am particularly interested in assessing to what extent progress has already been achieved in this regard."
“I am not leaving politics. I am going at the request of the president."
The visit follows UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s meeting with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in September.
“The meetings also reviewed drugs policy, environment and climate change, as well as corruption.”
The Russian envoy said the decision was “totally unacceptable”.
Both Karannagoda and his wife, Srimathi Ashoka Karannagoda, will be ineligible for entry into the US.
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