PM Wickremesinghe off to Switzerland

January 16, 2017 01:35 pm

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will leave for Switzerland today to attend the World Economic Summit to be held in Davos City from 17 to 21 January.

Leaders of nearly 40 countries are scheduled to attend the 2017 World Economic Summit which would study the world’s new economic trends in depth, the Government Information Department said.

The 2017 World Economic Summit would lay the groundwork to ensure a more favorable atmosphere in the future world, bring plans of world leaders towards a common objective and make a collective effort towards formulating a universal and regional economic agenda.

Ministers Ravi Karunanayake and Harin Fernando have also been invited to attend the summit.

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