{"id":11559,"date":"2022-02-09T04:31:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T04:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=11559"},"modified":"2022-02-09T04:31:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T04:31:27","slug":"modi-and-jaishankar-likely-to-visit-sri-lanka-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/modi-and-jaishankar-likely-to-visit-sri-lanka-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi and Jaishankar likely to visit Sri Lanka in March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit Sri Lanka in March, Foreign Ministry sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sources said that Modi is likely to visit Sri Lanka to attend the BIMSTEC Summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foreign Ministry sources also said that Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is likely to visit Sri Lanka soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The visits are seen as part of attempts by India to further strengthen its relationship with Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa and Foreign Minister G L Peiris have just concluded separate visits to New Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rajapaksa is expected to travel to India once again for follow-up discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the meeting with Foreign Minister G L Peiris on Monday, Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar tweeted saying they had a productive meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said they discussed economic and investment initiatives that will strengthen Sri Lanka at this time and also focused on additional steps to enhance Sri Lanka\u2019s energy security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both sides also exchanged views on the fishermen issue and agreed that bilateral mechanisms should meet early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit Sri Lanka in March, Foreign&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11561,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11559\/revisions\/11561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}