Sri Lanka's Gotabaya Rajapaksa takes oaths as executive president

 

Sri Lanka's new President Gotabaya Rajapaksa speaks during his first address to the nation in Anuradhapura of North Central Province, Sri Lanka, on Nov. 18, 2019. Sri Lanka's new President Gotabaya Rajapaksa vowed on Monday to maintain a neutral foreign policy and stay out of any conflict of world powers, shortly after he took the oath as the island nation's president. (Photo by Ajith Perera/Xinhua)

COLOMBO, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's opposition presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who won Saturday's presidential elections, was sworn in as the executive president on Monday.