State Minister of Foreign Affairs Tharaka Balasuriya has actually met with Qatars Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi on the sidelines of the Fifth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) which kicked off in Doha on Sunday.The conference went over elements of the cooperation in between the two nations.

In a tweet, state minister Balasuriya stated they went over lots of issues including Qatar recognizing Sri Lanka engineering degrees and Sri Lankas technical assistance to promote cricket in Qatar.Meanwhile the Sri Lankan State Minister has also met with the President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the LDC conference in Doha.

I assured HE of Sri Lankas steady assistance for the Palestinian cause and its individuals Palestine, he tweeted.

The State Minister said he likewise had a side meeting with the Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Antonio Vitorino in Doha.

He stated that in addition to the continuous assistance of IOM with matters refer to migration, the director basic guaranteed IOM assistance with the digitalization of the freshly established Office of Overseas Sri Lankans.