Kathmandu, Nepal, March 3, 2020: The newly appointed secretary general of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Esala Ruwan Weerakoon of Sri Lanka, has assumed office.
Weerakoon has become the fourteenth secretary general of the eight-member regional block. According to the SAARC secretariat, he served as the foreign secretary and secretary at the Ministry of Tourism Development and Christian Religious Affairs, Sri Lanka.
