- the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies is a multi - disciplinary research forum dedicated to analyzing Sri Lanka's strategic interests in the realm of international relations, within the contemporary domestic and global contexts. This institute functions as a forum for the generation of research and analysis, with a view to providing inputs to national policy formulation. The proposal made by Hon. (Prof.) G.L. Peiris, Minister of External Affairs, to enter into the above Memorandum of Understanding between the two countries, was approved by the Cabinet.