Sri Lanka라이브 바카라 High Commissioner to India Austin Fernando held talks with officials in Tamil Nadu to discuss the process of voluntary repatriation of Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka living in India.
바카라 웹사이트Fernando, who in an interview to 바카라 웹사이트 newspaper has said that Colombo wants the Tamil refugees to return, was on a working visit to south India to participate in the Special Consular service programme at the Sri Lanka Deputy High Commission in Chennai from February 7-10.바카라 웹사이트
The programme brought together a team from Sri Lanka representing the Registrar General라이브 바카라 Office and Department of Immigration and Emigration headed by Controller General, M.N. Ranasinghe바카라 웹사이트and Additional Secretary (Bilateral Affairs), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sumith Nakandala, the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The High Commissioner held a meeting with officials from Sri Lanka and from the Sri Lankan Mission in Chennai and discussed the need to examine complicated cases with regard to providing birth certificates and citizenship certificates to Sri Lankan refugees living in India. He also discussed the issues relating to the voluntary repatriation process of Sri Lankan refugees.
He met with functionaries working with refugees, the Consular Division of the Chennai Mission and officials from Sri Lanka. The High Commissioner also addressed a gathering of Sri Lankan refugees. He said that he understood their problems and that the Government of Sri Lanka is committed to resolving the issues they faced.
The three-day programme began with a visit to the Maha Bodhi in Chennai and a call on OfERR, a leading organization working with refugees, the 바카라 웹사이트 reported.바카라 웹사이트
Fernando also paid a courtesy call바카라 웹사이트on Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit, at the Raj Bhavan and other senior officials.바카라 웹사이트 He conveyed Sri Lanka라이브 바카라 interest in developing closer bilateral cooperation with regard to the voluntary repatriation of Sri Lankan nationals.
