Mr Speaker, I am pleased to propose this adjournment motion that is intended to develop closer links between Parliamentarians in Sri Lanka, and their peers in other countries. I should add however that there has been much progress since I first suggested this motion, nine months ago. Several Friendship Associations have been set up in the last few months, beginning with the initiative of the former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs who revived the Sri Lanka – Brazil Parliamentarians’ Friendship Association. This was a fitting tribute to the increasingly close relations between Sri Lanka and South America.