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The high-level video conference on Belt and Road International Cooperation focused on how to combat the emerging corona virus and to enhance practical cooperation between countries within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with special emphasis on Sri Lanka’s role in the BRI while analyzing the opportunities and challenges. [...] The conference was organized by the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies (LKI) in collaboration with the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Ha Noi, Vietnam, the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) of the Viet Nam Institute for Indian & Southwest Asian Studies (VIISAS)–Ha Noi and the Foreign Ministry of Sri Lanka. [...] Initially the primary Commander of the and one of the major threats for the Sri Lankan focus was on focusing on military security but Army and Medical government after the Easter attack by extremists. [...] resources to control the ongoing pandemic protect citizens, nourishing the survival of the with the support of the efficient state-funded National Task Force was appointed by the sates as well as combatting crimes and threats. [...] of COVID-19 within Sri Lanka” is the vision of His the curfew and the military has shouldered the This became a massive Extremist’s violence in Sri Excellency the President Gotabaya Rajapakse.