PM Modi Holds Bilateral Talks With Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa

New Delhi:

High Minister Narendra Modi lately held wide-ranging talks together with his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa, masking all of the spectrum of bilateral ties and with a focal point on additional increasing cooperation in key spaces.

In his opening remarks at a digital bilateral summit, PM Modi mentioned he was once assured that the large electoral victory of the ruling birthday party in Sri Lanka subsidized by way of the Rajapaksa govt’s insurance policies will facilitate deeper cooperation between the 2 nations.

“A chance has come to start out a brand new bankruptcy in India-Sri Lanka ties after your birthday party’s electoral victory. Other folks from each the nations are having a look at us with new hope and expectancies,” PM Modi mentioned.

Mahinda Rajapaksa was once sworn in as Sri Lanka’s High Minister for a recent time period on August nine after his birthday party, the Sri Lanka Other folks’s Entrance, secured a two-third majority within the parliamentary election.

PM Modi mentioned India provides precedence to its members of the family with Sri Lanka as he discussed his govt’s neighbourhood-first coverage in addition to SAGAR (Safety and Enlargement for All within the Area) doctrine.

It was once High Minister Modi’s first such digital bilateral engagement with a pacesetter of a neighbouring nation. For High Minister Rajapaksa, it was once the primary diplomatic engagement with a pacesetter of a overseas nation after he was once sworn in as PM.

It was once learnt that the 2 leaders deliberated on a number of problems like tactics to additional deepen total defence and industry ties in addition to growth of present cooperation in different key spaces.
 

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