ECONOMYNEXT – Chinese language Ambassador to Sri Lanka Qi Zhenhong has welcomed information of the island nation’s president’s first overseas go to to India and mentioned such a transfer will likely be useful for Sri Lankans.
Ambassador Zhenhong is in Jaffna on a go to to see the scenario within the Northern Province which is near South India’s Tamil Nadu State.
Overseas Minister Vijitha Herath has mentioned President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will go to New Delhi on an official go to subsequent month and later he’ll go to China.
“Yesterday, I realized from the information {that a} minister has mentioned that President Dissanayake will make his first official go to to India in the course of December. We’re very glad to see this new improvement as a result of India and Sri Lanka are shut neighbours,” Zhenhong informed reporters when he had a media briefing on Tuesday (19) at Jaffna Press Membership.
“And when the 2 international locations construct relations and financial cooperation, they will ship extra advantages to the folks of the nation.”
“We additionally welcome his excellency Dissanayake to go to China at his comfort, as a result of we consider such go to will even improve our conventional friendship, promote our bilateral financial cooperation and produce many extra advantages to the Folks.”
The Chinese language ambassador’s go to comes 4 days after Dissanayake’s Marxists Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led Nationwide Folks’s Energy (NPP) recorded a historic win within the North just like the South of the nation.
Ethnic minority Tamils till November 14 elections have backed ethnic Tamil events and by no means supported some other events when Tamil events contest of their districts.
Nevertheless, most Tamils voted for the NPP, which recorded a landslide victory with 159 seats within the 225-member parliament.
Zhenhong praised the Northern folks for the change they expressed in final week’s election. (Colombo/November 20/2024)
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