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The head of Myanmar’s government Aung San Suu Kyi met with Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday, where she praised the “democratic transformation” on the island according to the official President’s Media Division.
Ms Suu Kyi, the Nobel Prizne winning State Counsellor of Myanmar and leader of the National League for Democracy, met with the Sri Lankan president on the side lines of the BRICS Outreach Summit, currently underway in Goa, India.
She also reportedly “expressed her satisfaction over the political journey of President Sirisena” and called for a strengthening of relations between the two countries.
Mr Sirisena has previously praised the Burmese leader, and drawn on the “long standing relations which is underpinned by Theravada Buddhism” between Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
Ms Suu Kyi also drew on the Buddhist links between the two, stating that her government would donate a baby elephant to the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy.
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