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IANS | 20 Oct, 2018
India and Sri Lanka discussed the entire gamut of their bilateral
relationship during delegation-level talks headed by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and his Sri Lankan counterpart here on Saturday.
"Both
the Prime Ministers discussed the entire gamut of bilateral relations
and ways to further deepen the historically close and friendly relations
between the two countries," the External Affairs Ministry said in a
statement.
"The leaders exchanged views on regional and global issues," it stated.
According
to the statement, the two leaders reviewed the progress in
implementation of various decisions taken during high-level exchanges in
the recent past, including the visit of Wickremesinghe in April and
November 2017, Modi's visit to Sri Lanka in May 2017 during the
International Vesak Day Celebrations and the visit of Sri Lankan
President Maithripala Sirisena for the International Solar Alliance
Founding Conference here in March 2018.
"The visit is part of our continuing engagement with the government of Sri Lanka at the highest level," it stated.
"This
multi-faceted partnership has been marked by close contacts at the
highest political level, growing trade and investment, wide ranging
development cooperation, increasing linkages in the fields of education,
health, infrastructure, connectivity and capacity building and
broadening people-to-people contacts."
India is a leading aid partner of Sri Lanka and New Delhi has extended several lines of credit to Colombo.
Earlier
in the day, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Minister of Home
Affairs Rajnath Singh and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval called on
Wickremesinghe.
The Sri Lankan Prime Minister arrived here on Thursday in what is his fifth visit to India after assuming office in 2015.
A
high-level delegation comprising Minister of Development Strategies and
International Trade Malik Samarawickrama, Minister of Petroleum
Resources Development Arjuna Ranatunga, Chief of Staff to the Prime
Minister and Minister of Youth Affairs, Project Management and Southern
Development Sagala Ratnayake and other senior government officials
accompanied him.
The visit comes after reports in a section of
the media alleged that President Sirisena has alluded to the involvement
of an Indian agency in a plot to assassinate him.
Firmly dismissing the reports, Sirisena held a telephonic discussion with Modi earlier this week to clarify the matter.
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