India will continue to give due importance to its ‘Neighbourhood First Policy’, the country’s prime minister assured Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Twitter.
On Sunday, President Rajapaksa congratulated the Indian prime minister on the country’s successful roll out of the COVID-19 vaccine, tweeting, “my heartiest congratulations to Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on the successful roll out of the COVID-19 vaccine & his generosity towards friendly neighbouring countries.”
Prime Minister Modi thanked Rajapaksa the following day and said “We will [continue] to give due importance to our Neighborhood First policy while collectively fighting the pandemic.”
The interaction came around a week after India’s foreign minister visited Sri Lanka, during which time he is reported to have stressed the importance of meeting Tamil demands.
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