MOHAMMED RASOOLDEEN
COLOMBO- Additional Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, P.M. Amsa has been nominated as ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has designated three career diplomats as ambassadors to Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Iran.
Amsa’s nomination has been forwarded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs along with the names of two other career diplomats designated to Brazil and Iran to the High Post Committee of the parliament.
The Ambassadors designated to Brazil is D.M.S.B.Dassanayaka and G.M.V.Wishwanatha Aponsu to Iran.
Aponsu is the director-general of consular affairs, while Dassanayaka is the director-general of human resources and mission management at the ministry of foreign affairs.
The Sri Lankan mission in Saudi Arabia has been without an ambassador for more than a year ever since the former Ambassador Azmi Thassim left Saudi Arabia on completion of his tour of duty in the Kingdom.
Amsa has been in the foreign service for more than 25 years with a record of serving as his country’s ambassador in Turkey; accredited to Georgia and Ukraine and Belgium accredited as head of mission to European Union and as deputy high commissioner in Chennai and London. He had also served in diplomatic postings in Berlin, Singapore and Cairo
