Foreign representatives say that Sri Lanka is the most appropriate country to host the next International Conference of Asian Political Parties.
The International Conference will be held from the 18th to the 21st of September this year with the opening ceremony slated to be held on the 19th of September.
The preparations were finalized when the Secretary General of the ICAPP Standing Committee Chung Eui-yong met President Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this afternoon. As hosts, Sri Lanka was requested to select the main theme of the conference, which was decided to be “Building an Asian Community.”
The invitation to host this year’s ICAPP was made in July last year. When Mr. Eui-yong met the President then, he said other ICAPP members were “very enthusiastic” about the possibility of Sri Lanka hosting the next conference. Approximately 100 different political parties throughout Asia are expected to attend the high-level conference. Mr. Eui-yong said during the meeting in July that Sri Lanka is very strategically located for such a meeting.
President Rajapaksa also addressed a special conference of ICAPP in Shaanxi Province during his state visit to China in May 2013. At that meeting as well, there was a focus placed on the need to strengthen the relationships between and among Asian nations.
Minister Maithreepala Sirisena, Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga, Foreign Secretary Kshenuka Seneviratne and
South Korea’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka Jongmoon Choi were present.
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