List of ambassadors of Sri Lanka to China

The Sri Lankan Ambassador to China is the Sri Lankan envoy to the People's Republic of China. He is concurrently accredited as Ambassador to Mongolia and North Korea. The current ambassador is Dr. Karunasena Kodituwakku.[1]

Ambassador of Sri Lanka to China
Incumbent
Palitha Kohona
since 14 April 2021
Inaugural holderClaude Corea
Formation8 September 1956

The Sri Lankan ambassador in Beijing is the official representative of the Government in Colombo to the Government of the People's Republic of China and concurrently accredited in Pyongyang (North Korea) and Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia).

List of representatives
Diplomatic agrément/Diplomatic accreditation Ambassador Observations List of prime ministers of Sri Lanka Premier of the People's Republic of China Term end
8 September 1956 Claude Corea Special Ambassador to China, at the head of a Ceylon Government Delegation that was to have preliminary discussions with the Government of the People's Republic of China regarding the establishment of diplomatic relations, trade expansion, economic co-operation and cultural exchanges. S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Zhou Enlai
February 1957 Wilmot A. Perera In February 1957 Wilmot A. Perera was appointed Sri Lanka's first ambassador to China. S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Zhou Enlai
1958 William Gopallawa S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Zhou Enlai 1961
1961 Alwin Bernard Perea Sirimavo Bandaranaike Zhou Enlai 1963
1964 Stephen Frederick de Silva Sirimavo Bandaranaike Zhou Enlai 1965
1965 Don Benjamin Rupasinghe Gunawardena Robert Gunawardena, Ceylon has no Ambassador in Hanoi or Saigon, but Mr. Gunawardena was received in Hanoi. Dudley Shelton Senanayake Zhou Enlai 1970
1969 Yogendra Duraiswamy Chargé d'affaires Dudley Shelton Senanayake Zhou Enlai
1970 R.L.A.I. Karannagoda In a conversion with the Ceylonese Ambassador in Beijing, I. A. Karannagoda, Zhou Enlai, disavowed the 'Guearists'. Sirimavo Bandaranaike Zhou Enlai 1977
1978 Chitra Raja Dias Desinghe Ranasinghe Premadasa Hua Guofeng 1979
31 May 1980 Chithambaranathan Mahendran
  • In July 1992 he was ambassador in Tokyo, Japan.
 Ranasinghe Premadasa Zhao Ziyang 1983
1984 Kandage Newton Samarasinghe Ranasinghe Premadasa Zhao Ziyang
1993 Wilhelm Woutersz Ranil Wickremesinghe Li Peng 1997
12 November 1997 Rodney Vandergert Sirimavo Bandaranaike Li Peng 2000
2002 Bernard Anton Bandara Goonetilleke Mahinda Rajapaksa Wen Jiabao 2004
2008 Karunatilaka Amunugama Ratnasiri Wickremanayake Wen Jiabao 16 August 2011
16 August 2011 Ranjit Uyangoda D. M. Jayaratne Wen Jiabao 2015
2015 Karunasena Kodituwakku Ranil Wickremesinghe Li Keqiang

39.912154°N 116.444492°E / 39.912154; 116.444492 [2]

See also

References
  1. embassy of the democratic socialist republic of sri lanka beijing china,
  2. Wolfgang Bartke, The diplomatic service of the People's Republic of China as of November 1984, German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 1985, 120 p. p.112
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