Minister of foreign affairs Ali Sabry said that the Sri Lankan government will decriminalise same-sex relationships.
The government will amend clauses 365 and 365A of the Penal Code for this purpose, he said.
It comes after the UK, US, Canada and Norway urged Sri Lanka at the universal periodic review of the United Nations to decriminalise sexual relationships with people of the same sex.
Since 1994, these two particular clauses of the Penal Code have been opposed as a violation of the rights of same-sex people.
