Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva, Commander of the Army, just an hour after HE Gotabaya Rajapaksa, new President of Sri Lanka and Commander-in -Chief of the Armed Forces assumed duties at the Presidential Secretariat this morning (18) paid his first formal courtesy call on the President at the Presidential Secretariat .

During the courtesy visit, Lieutenant General Silva extended his best wishes to the country’s 7th Executive President and assured his organization’s best cooperation all the time for performance of national commitments as per guidelines given by the Commander –in-Chief of the Armed Forces.

Towards the end of the brief interaction, Lieutenant General Silva presented a replica of a Pagoda to the new President as a memento to coincide with HE the President’s inauguration of the new office. |