The International Organization on Migration (IOM) has expressed readiness to further enhance its assistance to Sri Lanka, by providing training and capacity building support for the Ministries of Foreign Employment and Foreign Affairs, and to the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau (SLBFE).
The IOM pledged to continue technical and secretarial support for the Colombo Process (CP) - the regional consultative forum of contractual labour originating countries in Asia, currently chaired by Sri Lanka.
These assurances were given when Minister of Foreign Employment, Thalatha Atukorale who was in Geneva last week to attend the sixth Global Meeting of Chairs and Secretaries of Regional Consultative Processes on Migration met the Director General of IOM Ambassador William Lacy Swing.