Mangala Samaraweera
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Honourable Mangala Samaraweera MP |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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Assumed office 12 January 2015 |
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| President | Maithripala Sirisena |
| Prime Minister | Ranil Wickremesinghe |
| Preceded by | Gamini Peiris |
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In office 23 November 2005 – 28 January 2007 |
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| President | Mahinda Rajapaksa |
| Prime Minister | Ratnasiri Wickremanayake |
| Preceded by | Anura Bandaranaike |
| Succeeded by | Rohitha Bogollagama |
| Member of the Sri Lanka Parliament for Matara District |
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Assumed office 15 February 1989 |
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Mangala Pinsiri Samaraweera April 21, 1956 (age 60) Matara, Sri Lanka |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Political party |
Sri Lanka Freedom Party (1983-2007) United National Party (2010-present) |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Religion | Theravada Buddhism |
| Ethnicity | Sinhalese |
Mangala Pinsiri Samaraweera (Sinhala:මංගල පින්සිරි සමරවීර Tamil:மங்கள சமரவீர; pronounced [mˈʌŋgɘlɘ pinsiri sˈʌmɘrɘviːrɘ ]; born April 21, 1956), better known as Mangala Samaraweera, is a Sri Lankan politician who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2015. He previously held that post from 2005 to 2007. He created a stir in Sri Lankan politics when he was sacked as a minister by President Mahinda Rajapakse in 2007, after which he formed a new political party called the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (Mahajana) Wing which merged into the United National Party in 2010.
Samaraweera is the son of Mahanama Samaraweera, who was a Cabinet Minister of Local Government, Housing, Posts and Telecommunications in Sirimavo Bandaranaike's government, and Khema Samaraweera, a member of the Matara Urban Council. A graduate in Clothing Design and Technology from St. Martin's School of Art in London, he served as a design consultant to the National Design Center of Sri Lanka prior to his political career.
He was the Sri Lanka Freedom Party's chief organizer for the southern city Matara beginning in 1983 and Assistant Secretary of the SLFP Coordinating Secretary of the Mother’s Front.
He first entered the Parliament of Sri Lanka as a representative of the Matara District in 1989, and he was appointed as Minister of Post & Telecommunications in the cabinet of President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga in 1994. He also served as the Minister of Urban Development, Construction and Public Utilities in the same Cabinet after a reshuffle and was later given the Deputy Minister of Finance portfolio.
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