EU Ambassador to meet CV

EU Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives Tung-Laï Margue would meet Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran during his visit to the Northern Province from February 15 to 17, the EU Embassy in Colombo said today.

Issuing a statement, the embassy said Ambassador Margue and United Nations Resident Coordinator Una McCauley would meet the Chief Minister on February 15.

They envoys are scheduled to travel to Vavuniya to visit projects implemented by UN agencies as part of the European Union Support to District Development Programme (EU-SDDP).

“Ambassador Margue will visit the Kanagarayankulam Police Station to inaugurate a Women and Children's Desk, inspect the Public Employment Service Centre at the District Secretariat, handover equipment to the Technical College of the Department of Technical Education and Training in Nelumkulam, inaugurate a sewerage and wastewater treatment plant for the Vavuniya General Hospital and declare open a Local Economic Development Centre and Economic Advisory Service in Venkalachedikulam,” the statement said.

Ambassador Margue would also visit an EU-funded housing project implemented by Habitat for Humanity Sri Lanka and World Vision Lanka in the Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts, the embassy said.