At a breakfast meeting with BCIU, which was represented by top names including GE, Honeywell, Procter & Gamble, and Mastercard, Sri Lanka was promoted as destination for investment and as a place that is open for business, the President's media office said.
Established in 1955 as an initiative of former US President Dwight D Eisenhower, "to promote commerce and diplomacy as a non-partisan facilitator of dialogue and alliances for the world’s leading businesses and political leaders," the statement said.