PARLIAMENT

The Prime Minister of Thailand Her Excellency Yingluck Shinawatra will address the Parliament of Sri Lanka on 31^st May 2013, as part of her official visit to the country. She will be only the third visiting premier to address the Members of Parliament inside the Parliament Chamber at Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, after former British Prime Minister Mrs. Margaret Thatcher (in 1985) and Ms. Shinawatra’s elder brother Dr. Thaksin Shinawatra (in 2003).



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Address to Parliamentarians by visiting dignitaries Name & Designation Date of Address Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (Prime Minister of India) 13 October 1962 Field Marshall Mohamed Ayub Khan (President of Pakistan) 09 December 1963 Mrs. Indira Gandhi (Prime Minister of India) 28 April 1973 Zulfikar Ali Bhuto (President of Pakistan) 16 December 1975 Moraji Desai (Prime Minister of India) 06 February 1979 Mrs. Margaret Thatcher (Prime Minister of Great Britain) 13 April 1985 Mr. Thaksin Shinawatra (Prime Minister of Thailand) 15 August 2003