Sri Lanka-India ties at high point, concerns about Chinese presence in country ‘consigned to past’: G L Peiris
Posted on February 12th, 2022
Written by Nirupama Subramanian Courtesy The Indian Express
Peiris said the fishermen’s issue – Indian fishermen trespassing in Sri Lankan waters and getting arrested – was now a serious” flashpoint in ties with India.
Sri Lanka’s foreign minister G L Peiris with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. (PTI/File)
In an interview to The Indian Express, Sri Lanka’s foreign minister G L Peiris, who was in Delhi from February 6-8, said India and Sri Lanka had reached a high point in their relations, and that concerns about the Chinese presence in his country had been consigned to the past”. Peiris said the fishermen’s issue – Indian fishermen trespassing in Sri Lankan waters and getting arrested – was now a serious” flashpoint in ties with India. He blamed the Tamil National Alliance for the hiatus” in the implementation of the 13th Amendment because of its support to the previous Maithripala Sirisena government’s decision to change electoral laws.