Indian foreign secretary to visit Sri Lanka

India's foreign secretary, S Jaishankar, is to visit Sri Lanka on Monday, reported the New Indian Express.

The visit is believed to be a preliminary one ahead of a visit by India's external affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj in February when she is expected to visit Jaffna.

Mr Jaishankar is to hold meetings with his Sri Lankan counterpart, the foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera and the president, Maithripala Sirisena.

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has also reportedly sought a meeting.

See here for more.

Add new comment

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Global and entity tokens are replaced with their values. Browse available tokens.