INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on January 20 called on Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and discussed the progress of
Jaishankar is in the Ugandan capital city of Kampala to represent India at the two-day summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which began
towards the management of relations with countries in its immediate neighbourhood
It is aimed at enhancing physical, digital and people-to-people connectivity across the region, as well as augmenting trade and commerce.Sri
Lanka was hit by a catastrophic financial crisis in 2022, the worst since its independence from Britain in 1948, due to a severe paucity of
foreign exchange reserves.As the country struggled, locked in the throes of the crisis, India extended multi-pronged assistance of about USD
Thanked him for the excellent arrangements for the NAM Summit
Jaishankar on Friday held a series of bilateral meetings with his counterparts from Bahrain, Serbia, Bolivia, Azerbaijan and Venezuela
during which he discussed bilateral ties, as well as regional and global issues.Source: The Hindu
-Agencies
