Sri Lanka Foreign Affairs Ministry has welcomed 21 new officers to the foreign service on Wednesday.
The Foreign Affairs Ministry says the 2018 Intake of Officers of the Sri Lanka Foreign Service (SLFS) assumed duties at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Colombo, on 2 May 2018 and were welcomed by Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Prasad Kariyawasam.
The SLFS batch of 2018, comprising 21 officers were appointed to the SLFS by the Public Service Commission through an Open Competitive Examination held in 2017 conducted by the Department of Examinations, as per the provisions of the SLFS Minute 2016 and the Gazette notification No. 2011 dated 17 March 2017.
The newly recruited officers will undergo a comprehensive training program designed by the Bandaranaike International Diplomatic Training Institute (BIDTI) (training arm of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs), which will include familiarization programs at other government ministries and agencies, before being deployed at the Foreign Ministry.
