The official flag raising ceremony of the interim office for the newly established Brazilian Embassy in Colombo, set up at the JAIC Hilton Residency recently, took place yesterday morning, the Embassy announced.
The Additional Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs T.V. Maduwegedera, Brazilian Chargé d´Affaires, Antonio Cottas de Jesus Freitas, present and former Sri Lankan Ambassadors to Brazil, General Shantha Kottegoda, and General Rohan Daluwatte and Chancellery Assistant, Wellington Alves de Abreu participated in the event. The Honorary Consul for Brazil in Sri Lanka, Jennifer Moragoda, was also present.
The Government of Brazil had originally set up an embassy in Sri Lanka in the early sixties, but it was closed in 1969. In recognition of the growing importance of Sri Lanka-Brazil relations, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on the advice of the Minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim, took the decision to re-establish its mission here. The new Ambassador, Pedro Henrique Lopes Borio, is scheduled to arrive at the end of January 2008.
The Embassy of Brazil expressed its profound gratitude and to the Government of Sri Lanka and its authorities, both in Colombo and in Brazil, for the generous and continued assistance received regarding the present reopening of the Embassy. It also expressed its gratitude to the Honorary Consulate, the Honorary Consul, Mrs. Jennifer Moragoda, and the previous Honorary Consul, Mr. Milinda Moragoda, for the tireless work they had carried out on behalf of Brazil, superbly representing the country in the absence of the Embassy. The Honorary Consulate will continue to operate and to work in close cooperation with the re-opened Embassy, it said.
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