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Fruitful Virtual Conference held with FIFA representatives via Zoom
The Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Hon. Roshan Ranasinghe was engaged in a video conference with the representatives of the International Football Federation today (10).
The meeting was conducted to discuss the way forward plan to lift the FIFA ban and the current situation of Sri Lankan Football.
This discussion ended with a positive note to lifting the ban imposed on Sri Lanka.
The Minister’s attention was drawn to the matters presented by the representatives of the International Football Federation. The minister also emphasized the difficulties faced by football players due to the ban imposed and the fact that they will not get a chance to participate in the World Cup qualification matches to be held in September.
The minister requested the international football representatives to assist and provide the necessary background to remove the ban based on the agreement of the two parties and give the Sri Lankan football team the opportunity to participate in the World Cup qualification matches. They agreed to consider the request.
Hoping for a favourable result of lifting the ban on football and allowing the Sri Lankan football team to participate in above said tournament, a speedy mechanism will be prepared to implement the discussed matters and work according to the agreements.
Participants in this discussion: Mr. Kenny Jean Marie (Chief Member Association Officer FIFA), Mr. Wahid Kardany (Member Association AFC), Ms. Sarah Solemale (Senior Manager – Member Associations Governance FIFA), Mr.K.Mahesan (Secretary – Ministry of Sports & Youth Affairs, Mr. Gamini Wikramapala (DG -Planning – Ministry of Sports & Youth Affairs, Mr. Sumathi Dharmawardhena (PC – Additional Solicitor General, Attorney General’s Departments), Mr. Rajika Aluwihare (Attorney General’s Departments)
Zoom හරහා FIFA නියෝජිතයන් සමඟ පවත්වන ලද අද පැවති සාකච්ඡාව.
ක්රීඩා හා යෞවන කටයුතු අමාත්ය ගරු. රොෂාන් රණසිංහ අද (10) ජාත්යන්තර පාපන්දු සම්මේලනයේ නියෝජිතයින් සමඟ වීඩියෝ සම්මන්ත්රණයක නිරත විය.
FIFA තහනම ඉවත් කිරීමේ ඉදිරි සැලැස්ම සහ ශ්රී ලංකා පාපන්දු ක්රීඩාවේ වත්මන් තත්ත්වය පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡා කිරීම සඳහා මෙම රැස්වීම පවත්වන ලදී.
මෙම සාකච්ඡාව අවසන් වූයේ ශ්රී ලංකාවට පනවා ඇති තහනම ඉවත් කිරීමට ධනාත්මක සටහනක් තබමිනි.
එහිදී ජාත්යන්තර පාපන්දු සම්මේලනයේ නියෝජිතයින් ඉදිරිපත් කළ කරුණු සම්බන්ධයෙන් අමාත්යවරයාගේ අවධානය යොමු විය. පනවා ඇති තහනම හේතුවෙන් පාපන්දු ක්රීඩකයින් මුහුණ දෙන දුෂ්කරතා සහ සැප්තැම්බර් මාසයේ පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත ලෝක කුසලාන සුදුසුකම් ලැබීමේ තරඟ සඳහා සහභාගී වීමට අවස්ථාවක් නොලැබෙන බව ද අමාත්යවරයා අවධාරණය කළේය.
දෙපාර්ශවයේ එකඟතාවය මත තහනම ඉවත් කර ශ්රී ලංකා පාපන්දු කණ්ඩායමට ලෝක කුසලාන සුදුසුකම් ලැබීමේ තරග සඳහා සහභාගි වීමට අවස්ථාව ලබාදීමට අවශ්ය පසුබිම සලසන ලෙස අමාත්යවරයා ජාත්යන්තර පාපන්දු නියෝජිතයින්ගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටි අතර එම ඉල්ලීම සලකා බැලීමට ඔවුන් එකඟ විය.
පාපන්දු තහනම ඉවත් කර, ශ්රී ලංකා පාපන්දු කණ්ඩායමට ඉහත කී තරගාවලියට සහභාගි වීමට ඉඩ සැලසීමේ යහපත් ප්රතිඵලයක් අපේක්ෂාවෙන්, සාකච්ඡා කර ඇති කරුණු ක්රියාත්මක කර ගිවිසුම් අනුව කටයුතු කිරීමට කඩිනම් යාන්ත්රණයක් සකස් කිරීමට නියමිතව ඇත.
මෙම සාකච්ඡාවට සහභාගී වූවන්: Kenny Jean Marie මහතා (FIFA ප්රධාන සාමාජික සංගමයේ නිලධාරි), Wahid Kardany මහතා (AFC සාමාජික සංගමය), Sarah Solemale (ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ කළමනාකරු – සාමාජික සංගම් පාලනය FIFA), K. මහේසන් මහතා (ලේකම් – ක්රීඩා සහ යෞවන කටයුතු අමාත්යාංශය, ගාමිණී වික්රමපාල මහතා (DG-සැලසුම් – ක්රීඩා හා යෞවන කටයුතු අමාත්යාංශය, සුමති ධර්මවර්ධන මහතා (PC – අතිරේක සොලිසිටර් ජනරාල්, නීතිපති දෙපාර්තමේන්තු), රාජික අලුවිහාරේ මහතා (නීතිපති දෙපාර්තමේන්තු)


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