On May 24-29, 2019 Saint Petersburg hosted the International Police Association gathering and brought together delegates from different countries. The IPA is the largest organization for police officers in the world, founded by British sergeant Arthur Troop in 1950, in order to create a platform for friendship and international cooperation amongst police officers. The association has now 72 national sections and over 360,000 members and associate members.

The Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau has issued a press release titled "Sri Lanka Tourism; Steady Road to Recovery" in connection to the terrorist acts that took place in Sri Lanka on April 21, 2019. 

The full version of the press release is available here and on the official website of the SLTPB: http://www.srilanka.travel/tourism-updates

On May 28, 2019 Ambassador Jayatilleka and Madame Sanja Jayatilleka, attended the opening ceremony of the rare exhibition dedicated to life and personality of Antonio Gramsci, the eminent figure of international communism, and more generally, of political science and political theory, and author of the famous 'Prison Notebooks'.