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Tudor Gunasekara

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Ranasinghe Hettiarachchige Tudor Edward Ranasinghe Gunasekara (known as Tudor Gunasekara, Sinhala: ටියුඩර් ගුණසේකර, born 23 January 1935) is a Sri Lankan former politician and diplomat. [1]

35 relations: Ambassador, Ananda College, Attanagalla, Biyagama, Bulgaria, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Colombo, Diplomat, District, Elephant, Gampaha, Gampaha District, General election, Given name, Heiyantuduwa Raja (elephant), Hungary, J. R. Jayewardene, Japan, Kandy Esala Perahera, List of Sri Lankan non-career diplomats, Member of parliament, Minister (government), Poland, Politician, Politics, President, Raja (elephant), Relic of the tooth of the Buddha, Romania, Sinhalese language, Sri Lanka, Tea production in Sri Lanka, The Honourable, United Kingdom, United National Party.

Ambassador

An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment.

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Ananda College

Ananda College (Sinhala: ආනන්ද විද්‍යාලය) is a national school for boys, with a student population exceeding 7,000 across 13 grades from primary to secondary classes, on a campus of in Maradana, Colombo.

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Attanagalla

Attanagalla is an electorate in Gampaha District, situated in the Western Province of Sri Lanka.

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Biyagama

Biyagama is an electorate in Gampaha District, situated in the Western Province of Sri Lanka.

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Bulgaria

Bulgaria (България, tr.), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (Република България, tr.), is a country in southeastern Europe.

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Chandrika Kumaratunga

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (චන්ද්‍රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායක කුමාරතුංග,சந்திரிகா பண்டாரநாயக்க குமாரதுங்க; born 29 June 1945) is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the fifth President of Sri Lanka, from 12 November 1994 to 19 November 2005.

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Colombo

Colombo (translit,; translit) is the commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka.

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Diplomat

A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or international organizations.

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District

A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by local government.

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Elephant

Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea.

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Gampaha

Gampaha (Sinhala: ගම්පහ; Tamil: கம்பஹா) is a major city in Gampaha District, Western Province, Sri Lanka.

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Gampaha District

Gampaha District (ගම්පහ දිස්ත්‍රික්කය gampaha distrikkaya, கம்பஹா மாவட்டம் Kampahā Māvaṭṭam) is one of the 25 districts of Sri Lanka, the second level administrative division of the country.

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General election

A general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are chosen.

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Given name

A given name (also known as a first name, forename or Christian name) is a part of a person's personal name.

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Heiyantuduwa Raja (elephant)

Heiyantuduwa Raja (Sinhala:හෙයියන්තුඩුවේ රාජා) was a Sri Lankan elephant, which carried the Relic of the tooth of the Buddha casket in the Dalada Perahera for 11 years after the demise of Maligawa Raja.

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Hungary

Hungary (Magyarország) is a country in Central Europe that covers an area of in the Carpathian Basin, bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west.

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J. R. Jayewardene

Junius Richard Jayewardene (ජුනියස් රිචඩ් ජයවර්ධන,ஜூனியஸ் ரிச்சட் ஜயவர்தனா; 17 September 1906 – 1 November 1996), commonly abbreviated in Sri Lanka as J. R., was the leader of Sri Lanka from 1977 to 1989, serving as Prime Minister from 1977 to 1978 and as the second President of Sri Lanka from 1978 till 1989.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Kandy Esala Perahera

The Kandy Esala Perahera (the Esala procession of Kandy) also known as The Festival of the Tooth is a grand festival celebrated with elegant costumes and is held in July and August in Kandy, Sri Lanka.

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List of Sri Lankan non-career diplomats

This is a list of Sri Lankan non-career diplomats, who have been appointed by Government of Sri Lanka as Ambassadors and High Commissioners, but are not Career diplomats by profession, meaning they are not from the Sri Lanka Foreign Service, but are from different professions and politicians.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Minister (government)

A minister is a politician who heads a government department, making and implementing decisions on policies in conjunction with the other ministers.

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Poland

Poland (Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country located in Central Europe.

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Politician

A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking office in government.

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Politics

Politics (from Politiká, meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group.

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President

The president is a common title for the head of state in most republics.

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Raja (elephant)

Raja (Sinhala:රාජා ඇතා - Raja Atha) (also known as Maligawa Raja) was a Sri Lankan tusker elephant belonged to the Sri Dalada Maligawa, Kandy.

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Relic of the tooth of the Buddha

The Sacred Relic of the tooth of Buddha (Pali danta dhātuya) is venerated in Sri Lanka as a cetiya "relic" of Gautama Buddha, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.

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Romania

Romania (România) is a sovereign state located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.

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Sinhalese language

Sinhalese, known natively as Sinhala (සිංහල; siṁhala), is the native language of the Sinhalese people, who make up the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka, numbering about 16 million.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Tea production in Sri Lanka

Tea production is one of the main sources of foreign exchange for Sri Lanka (formerly called Ceylon), and accounts for 2% of GDP, contributing over US $1.5 billion in 2013 to the economy of Sri Lanka.

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The Honourable

The prefix The Honourable or The Honorable (abbreviated to The Hon., Hon. or formerly The Hon'ble—the latter term is still used in South Asia) is a style that is used before the names of certain classes of people.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United National Party

The United National Party, often abbreviated as UNP (translit, translit), is a political party in Sri Lanka.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_Gunasekara

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