The Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies conducted its inauguration ceremony of its academic programmes at the BCIS auditorium on Saturday.

Senior diplomat and former secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs H.M.G.S. Palihakkara and the High Commissioner of Canada in Sri Lanka, Shelley Whiting were in attendance along with former president Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga.

Former president Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga stated that that the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies was created several decades ago as a major institute for studies in international relations in the country. But for some strange reason, Sri Lanka does not have many faculties of studies for international relations, in the universities.

“There are only two as far as I know – in the Colombo and the Kelaniya University”, she said

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