
Ambassador Siri Walt
@swissamblka
Ambassador of Switzerland to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, 🇨🇭Federal Department of Foreign Affairs @eda_dfae / @swissMFA
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http://www.colombo.eda.ch 05-09-2018 03:17:41
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AMB Enderlin visited #SriLanka to explore avenues for #peace and #reconciliation amidst recent political changes. He discussed priorities of the new government with the MFA Vijitha Herath, the Minister of Justice and the Governor of the Northern Province and offered 🇨🇭 support.


#SriLanka: AMB Tim Enderlin visited families of #missing persons in📍Kilinochchi to hear their ongoing struggle for #truth and #justice, 15 years after the war's end. He reaffirmed Swiss Peace and Human Rights support to their cause as a 🔑pillar for reconciliation.


#SriLanka: in Jaffna, AMB Tim Enderlin Swiss Peace and Human Rights engaged with Tamil politicians, civil society and the Hindu clergy to understand deep-rooted issues and explore opportunities for #dialogue, dealing with the past and #reconciliation in the new political context.






At @EDworldcongress, Swiss Peace and Human Rights & Ambassador Siri Walt facilitated the participation of 🇱🇰 Sri Lankan family representatives in a panel on "Empowering victims of enforced disappearances" to deliver on the importance of collective family actions and networks. @193CEDI


The Ceylon Literary and Arts Festival is on in Colombo! Enjoyed the session with Razeen Sally and Bhavani Fonseka on reconciliation.


Constructive meeting with Hon. Arun Hemachandra, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Employment. We discussed our common 🇱🇰🇨🇭priorities and how we can deepen our economic partnership and our cooperation on good governance, peace, human rights, reconciliation and migration.



Multilinguism and cultural diversity enrich 🇱🇰as well as 🇨🇭. Thank you Bangladesh in Sri Lanka and the Ministry of Education of Sri Lanka for the festive event on today’s International Mother Language Day.



Very happy to welcome religious leaders from Puttalam, representing 4 major religions, at the 🇨🇭embassy for a discussion of their initiative to strengthen interreligious dialogue, inspired by the House of Religions Haus der Religionen - Dialog der Kulturen in Bern 🇨🇭.






