Sri Lankan Ambassador to Russia

Sri Lankan Ambassador to Russia

Incumbent [Dr.Saman Weerasinghe]
Style	His Excellency
Appointer	Maithripala Sirisena
Inaugural holder	Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera as Ceylonese Ambassador to the Soviet Union
Formation	1991 1957 as Ceylonese Ambassador to the Soviet Union
Website	Embassy of Sri Lanka, Russia

The Sri Lankan Ambassador to Russia is the Sri Lankan envoy to Russia. The Sri Lankan Ambassador to Russia is concurrently accredited as Ambassador to Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.^[1]

Ambassadors

Ambassador to the Soviet Union

Ambassadors	Start of Term	End of Term	Head of State/Government
Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera	1957	1961	S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Wijeyananda Dahanayake Dudley Senanayake Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Tikiri Banda Subasinghe	1961	1965	Sirimavo Bandaranaike
B. F. Perera	1965	1968	Dudley Senanayake
M. V. P. Peiris	1968	1969	Dudley Senanayake
J. C. T. Kotalawela	1969	1970	Dudley Senanayake Sirimavo Bandaranaike
C. D. S. Siriwardene	1970	1974	Sirimavo Bandaranaike
C. E. S. Weeratunge	1974	1976	Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Walter Jayawardene	1977	1978	Sirimavo Bandaranaike Junius Richard Jayewardene
R. C. A. Johnpulle	1978	1982	Junius Richard Jayewardene
Neville Kanakaratne	1982	1987	Junius Richard Jayewardene
Rodney Vandergert	1987	1991	Junius Richard Jayewardene Ranasinghe Premadasa

Ambassador to Russia

Ambassadors	Start of Term	End of Term	Head of State
Nissanka Wijeratne	1991	1994	Ranasinghe Premadasa Dingiri Banda Wijetunga
N. M. M. I. Hussain	1995	1998	Chandrika Kumaratunga
N. Sikkander	1998	2002
U. B. Wijekoon	2003	2004
Neville Ranasuriya	2005	2006	Chandrika Kumaratunga Mahinda Rajapaksa
Udayanga Weeratunga	2006	28 February 2015	Mahinda Rajapaksa
Saman Weerasinghe	7 September 2015		Maithripala Sirisena

References

↑ "Embassy of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Moscow, Russia". Ministry of External Affairs. Retrieved 15 November 2012.

External links

Embassy of Sri Lanka, Russia

Heads of foreign missions of Sri Lanka
Current countries	Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia-Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burma Burundi Canada Cambodia Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros DR Congo Congo Costa Rica Côte d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland France Gabon The Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Holy See Honduras Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Norway North Korea Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa San Marino São Tomé and Príncipe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa Spain Sudan Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe
Defunct countries	East Germany South Vietnam Soviet Union Yugoslavia
International organizations	EU FAO IFAD OECD United Nations UNESCO UNEP UN–HABITAT UNVIE UN (Geneva) WFP WTO

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