EU delegation here to monitor GSP+ progress

30 October 2017 08:22 pm

A four-member delegation from the European Parliament, led by MEP Jean Lambert, would visit Sri Lanka tomorrow, the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Sri Lanka and the Maldives said.

It said the members of the delegation would meet Government and civil society representatives to discuss Sri Lanka's progress on national reconciliation and its implementation of the international conventions applicable to GSP+.

“The MEPs Jean Lambert, Richard Corbett, Ulrike Müller and Wajid Khan would also visit EU-funded projects in the North and would conduct an inter-parliamentary dialogue,” the EU delegation said.

The MEPs will stay in the country till November 3.