External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will go to Colombo on Tuesday for a three-day go to to Sri Lanka, throughout which he’ll maintain talks with the nation’s high management and talk about problems with mutual and bilateral pursuits.
This would be the first go to by Jaishankar within the new yr. Jaishankar will even be the primary overseas dignitary to go to the island nation in 2021, and his go to would be the first since Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa assumed full presidential powers by the 20 th modification to the Constitution adopted final yr.
Jaishankar will maintain talks with the Lankan President, PM Mahinda Rajapaksa and his counterpart Dinesh Gunawardena.
His go to takes place amid considerations raised by the Colombo Port commerce unions on a proposed three way partnership with India on the Colombo Port’s Eastern Container Terminal. Unions and leftist opposition teams have been mounting public opposition to the port deal.
