Following his meetings with President Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa and Ms. Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, Foreign Minister of South Africa, Professor G.L. Peiris, Minister of  External Affairs, had further discussions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Pretoria, South Africa. 

Participating in these discussions were Mr. Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Africa, with special responsibility for this subject in the African National Congress, and Mr. Roelf Meyer, former Minister of Defence and Minister of Constitutional Affairs of South Africa and Chief Negotiator with the ANC, appointed by former President F.W. de  Klerk of South Africa.  

Other officials attending the meeting included Mr. Shehan Ratnavale, Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner in South Africa and Mr. Geoffrey Quinton Doidge, South Africa’s High Commissioner in Sri Lanka.  

Ministry of External Affairs 

Colombo

8^th March 2012