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A day after his arrival in New Delhi Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe met Congress President Rahul Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday in New Delhi.
UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi was also present at the meeting.
During their talks, the leaders discussed India-Sri Lanka relations in the light of their historic and cultural closeness.
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“Had a positive meeting with the Sri Lankan Prime Minister. I welcome him to India. Both India and Sri Lanka are historically and culturally very close,” the Congress president wrote on Facebook.
The Sri Lankan PM arrived on Thursday on a three-day official visit.
He is set to hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday on a a wide range of topics including housing projects in the north of Sri Lanka.
Wickremesinghe will also meet External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
The Sri Lankan Prime Minister’s visit comes two days after Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi amid reports quoting him telling his Cabinet that Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) was plotting his assassination.
In his telephonic conversation with PM Modi on Wednesday, Sirisena categorically rejected the media reports about him alluding to involvement of India in any manner whatsoever in an alleged plot to assassinate him and the former Defence Secretary of Sri Lanka.
Sirisena also reiterated that PM Modi is a true friend of Sri Lanka and a close personal friend.
In response, PM Modi praised his government’s prompt response quashing the malicious reports. The PM also reiterated India’s emphasis on ‘neighbourhood first’ policy and the priority his government and he himself attached to develop stronger all-round cooperation between India and Sri Lanka.
Certain sections in the media had attributed Sirisena telling his Cabinet of the threat from India’s external intelligence agency.
Sir Lankan Ministry of Foreign Affairs had later denied the report issuing a statement that the President’s remarks were taken out of context.
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