PM Modi and his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa will maintain a bilateral assembly nearly (File)
Colombo:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa will maintain a digital summit on September 26 throughout which the 2 leaders would talk about the complete gamut of bilateral relations, together with defence and safety points, the international ministry right here has introduced.
The summit is being held on the initiative of Prime Minister Modi who had a telephonic dialog with the newly-appointed Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on August 6 this yr, the ministry mentioned in an announcement.
“Trying ahead to interacting with PM @narendramodi on the digital summit scheduled for twenty sixth September. We anticipate to overview the multifaceted bilateral relationship between our nations, starting from politics, economics, protection, tourism, and different areas of mutual curiosity,” Prime Minister Rajapaksa mentioned in a tweet on Wednesday.
“The interplay is predicted to give attention to the complete gamut of bilateral engagement together with political, financial, finance, improvement, defence and safety spheres, instructional, tourism and cultural in addition to regional and worldwide problems with mutual curiosity,” the Sri Lankan international ministry mentioned in an announcement on Wednesday.
Related topic ministers and senior officers of each nations will affiliate the leaders on the summit, it mentioned.
That is the primary digital summit-level interplay by Prime Minister Rajapaksa with a international chief since turning into Prime Minister final month, it added.
Responding to Prime Minister Rajapaksa’s remarks, PM Modi tweeted on Thursday: “Thanks, @PresRajapaksa! I too look ahead to collectively reviewing our bilateral relationship comprehensively. We should discover methods to additional improve our cooperation within the post-COVID period.”
The 2 leaders are anticipated to deliberate on a bunch of points like methods to additional deepen anti-terror cooperation, enhance total defence and commerce ties in addition to implementation of India’s improvement initiatives in Sri Lanka.
The long-pending Tamil challenge in Sri Lanka can be more likely to determine within the talks.
India has been pitching for fulfilling the aspirations of the minority Tamil neighborhood within the island nation.
“The digital bilateral summit will give a chance to the 2 leaders to comprehensively overview the broad framework of the bilateral relationship quickly after the Parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka and within the context of the time-tested pleasant ties between the 2 nations,” the Ministry of Exterior Affairs mentioned in an announcement.
Prime Minister Modi visited Sri Lanka twice throughout the former regime of Maithripala Sirisena from 2015.
Each Mahinda Rajapaksa and his brother and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa selected India for his or her first abroad go to after profitable the presidential election in November final yr.
Sri Lanka waits in anticipation of India’s motion for a debt moratorium and an extra foreign money swap from India, mentioned the international ministry officers in Colombo.
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