Sri Lankan president arrives in India for official visit


Sri Lanka's new president, Maithripala Sirisena, arrived in New Delhi on Sunday as part of an official visit. He was greeted on arrival by India's Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, P Radhakrishnan.

Mr Sirisena, who is set to meet with the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, is accompanied by Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Mangala Samaraweera, and the leader of the government coalition partner, the JHU, Champika Ranawaka, as well as the resettlement minister, D M Swaminathan, the justice minister, Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe and the presidential secretary, P B Abeykoon.

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