The Board of Investment (BoI) recently organised a special programme for 57 non-resident heads of mission, defence advisors and defence attaches who were visiting Sri Lanka to attend the 68th Independence Day celebrations in Colombo.  

The group, which consisted of many ambassadors and high commissioners, was visiting different parts of the island under a programme organised by the Foreign Affairs Ministry.

The group visited the BoI’s Koggala Export Processing Zone (EPZ) and was briefed by BoI Regional Office/Southern Province Director Investor Services G.R. Abeyratne on the operation of EPZs and more specifically the Koggala EPZ.

The ambassadors were also briefed by Director Media and Publicity Dilip S. Samarasinghe on Sri Lanka’s investment climate and opportunities for investment in the country.  

Thereafter, the BoI made arrangements for the group to visit several enterprises at Koggala with a view of gaining additional knowledge on the status of investment and the industrial capacity available 
in Sri Lanka.

Programmes of this nature have contributed in creating a better understanding of Sri Lanka’s potential as a destination for investments and the efforts made by the BoI to promote and facilitate foreign direct investment into the country.