[1] From 29 June 2017 to 2 July 2017, the Sri Lankan State Minister of Foreign Affairs Wasantha Senanayake visited Romania.

Senanayake met with the Romanian Secretary of State for Bilateral Global Affairs Monica Gheorghiță, with whom he discussed issues in the political, economic, educational and cultural areas among others.

In addition, it was proposed to carry out at the end of 2017 a cultural programme featuring Romanian and Sri Lankan music, dance and cuisine in Brașov and Bucharest in Romania and in Colombo and Kandy in Sri Lanka to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of relations between the two countries.

It is thought that the reasons for the protests are that the population of Ditrău is not used to foreigners, in addition to the fact that the anti-immigrationist and nationalist media of the government of Viktor Orbán has "shaped" the ideology of the inhabitants.

[3] During the incident, the Sri Lankan consulate in Bucharest contacted the bakery to check the living conditions of the workers and to provide them diplomatic assistance.