Basil Rajapaksa Meets PM Modi, Thanks Him For Financial Assistance
New Delhi/Colombo, March 16: Sri Lanka’s Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa, who is on an official visit to India, met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday afternoon at the Parliament Complex. Basil thanked Prime Minister Modi for the financial assistance India is providing to Sri Lanka, newsfirst.lk reported. The Sri Lankan Minister also invited PM Modi to attend the much-awaited BIMSTEC or Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation summit being hosted by Sri Lanka on March 30.
Separately, the Sri Lankan Minister met with Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla. Finance Secretary S.R. Attygalle, Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda, and India’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay also accompanied Basil Rajapaksa at the meeting. Basil Rajapaksa is scheduled to meet with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Deputy National Security Advisor Vikram Misri among others for high-level talks. He is set to seek a USD 1 billion line of credit (LoC) for his island country that is battling a financial crunch.
