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Colombo: India’s foreign minister arrived in Sri Lanka on Tuesday and announced that new President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to visit New Delhi next week.
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said he held talks with Rajapaksa in Colombo on his first full day in office after being sworn in Monday.
“President @GotabayaR (Rajapaksa) has accepted PM @narendramodi’s invitation to visit India on 29th November,” Jaishankar said on Twitter.
It is most likely to be Rajapaksa’s first official visit abroad after winning a landslide in Saturday’s polls.
The Indian minister said he conveyed Modi’s message “of a partnership for shared peace, progress, prosperity and security” to Rajapaksa in Colombo. (AFP)
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