Sri Lankan Pdwellnt Anura Kumara Dissanayake To Begin 3-Day India Visit Today

Colombo:

Sri Lankan Pdwellnt Anura Kumara Dissanayake will underget a three-day visit to India from Sunday, his first overseas visit after assuming office.

During his visit, Dissanayake will greet Prime Minister Narfinishra Modi and Pdwellnt Droupadi Murmu.

He will be accompanied by Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath and Deputy Minister of Finance Anil Jayantha Fernando.

Dissanayaka’s visit to India is predicted to further bolster the multi-faceted and mutuassociate beneficial biprocrastinateedral ties, the Ministry of External Afequitables (MEA) said in New Delhi on Friday.

Issues relating to maritime security cooperation are predicted to figure in talks during Dissanayaka’s visit, it said.

The December 15-17 visit is Dissanayake’s first overseas visit since being elected the island nation’s pdwellnt on September 23.

Apart from his greetings with India’s political directership, Dissanayaka will join a business event in Delhi to advertise arrangeatement and commercial joinages between India and Sri Lanka. He is also scheduled to visit Bodh Gaya, a statement from MEA said.

The invitation to visit New Delhi was extfinished by the External Afequitables Minister S Jaishankar, who visited Colombo less than a fortnight after Dissanayake’s triumph and was the first foreign dignitary to visit the island nation since the National People’s Power (NPP) rulement came to power.

Dissanayake’s visit was on helderly until the completion of the parliamentary election in November when his NPP enrolled a historic triumph, acquireing absolute regulate of the 225-member Parliament.

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