The Sri Lankan ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Ahamed Javad has not been recalled and is still serving in that post, a spokesman for the Ministry of External Affairs said.
The ministry further said that no decision has been taken yet to recall him or to replace him.
The government last Thursday (10) announced its decision to recall its envoy to Saudi Arabia after the execution of the Sri Lankan housemaid over the death of an infant in her care in 2005.
Rizana Nafeek was beheaded in the town of Dawadmy, near the capital Riyadh, on January 09 morning after being sentenced to death in 2007. She was accused by her Saudi employer of killing his infant daughter while she was bottle-feeding.
The Sri Lankan government appealed against the death penalty but the Saudi Supreme Court upheld the sentence in 2010. It was reported that the infant’s mother had rejected a request to forgive the maid, which is the most important criteria in considering the release of a murderer in Saudi Arabia.
Meanwhile it has been reported that the mother of Rizana Nafeek has rejected offers of cash from the Saudi government or Saudi well-wishers.
“I will not accept any gifts from the Saudis or the Saudi government which murdered my daughter,” Rizana Nafeek’s mother, Saiyadu Farina, was quoted as saying by a local newspaper on Friday (18).
The report stated that she has received cash offers exceeding two million rupees ($16,000) following the execution.
The impoverished family lives in a make-shift home in the eastern village of Muttur. | 
Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is still serving in the Arab state, despite the government stating that it has recalled its envoy to protest the execution of Rizana Nafeek in the country, the foreign ministry said.
Russia decided to donate 8 helicopters to SriLanka. [
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Tamil Genocide attack day commemorated at Queens Burg city in Toronto, Canada. [
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Thousands of Tamil national present at the Mulliwaikal mourning organized by the British Tamil Forum. [
Sixty-one Bangladeshis, who were in Sri Lankan detention camps for four months after being picked up by the navy in February, are scheduled to be returned to their home country from Colombo around Sunday noon. [
Parliamentarian Ravi Karunanayaka of Sri Lanka main opposition United National Party (UNP) said yesterday that the UNP turned down a request from a former terrorist to contest the Northern Provincial Council elections under the party. [
The entire world was asking Sri Lanka to give into the terrorists and avoid confrontation with them, but we chose to trust in the strength and courage of the country’s youth, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said. [
Trade unions, opposition parties and civil society organizations are gearing up to hold a massive protest on the 21st against the electricity tariff hike and the performance of the government. [
Deputy leader of the Vavuniya Municipal council M.M.Rathan stated by lighting lamps in the Wellamulliwaikal and Karaiyan Mulliwaikal people paid their respect to civilians killed in the final stage of war in year 2009. [
There is little doubt that in 2009 the government of Sri Lanka pulled off one of the nastiest episodes of mass killing since the Rwandan genocide – and got away with it. Tens of thousands of civilians were massacred, with barely a trickle of Syria-like imagery emerging from the battle zone, The Australian reported. [