Colombo (News 1st): Luxembourg’s Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Jean Asselborn will arrive in Sri Lanka this week. Issuing a statement, the Foreign Ministry said that Asselborn will arrive in the country tomorrow (Jan 30).

He is scheduled to meet President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his Sri Lankan counterpart Dinesh Gunawardena at the Ministry of Foreign Relations on Friday (Jan 31). c

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