{"id":65406,"date":"2017-04-21T15:49:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T22:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=65406"},"modified":"2017-04-21T15:49:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T22:49:40","slug":"india-sri-lanka-to-sign-up-deal-on-port-development-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/04\/21\/india-sri-lanka-to-sign-up-deal-on-port-development-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"India, Sri Lanka to Sign Up Deal on Port Development Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"b-article__lead\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Sputnik<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"b-article__lead\">Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is scheduled to visit India from April 25 to April 29 to strengthen economic cooperation between the two neighbors. His visit will also set the agenda for the upcoming visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Sri Lanka in May.<\/p>\n<div class=\"b-article__text\">\n<div class=\"b-inject m-inject-min\">\n<div class=\"b-inject__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"Port of Hambantota\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn3.img.sputniknews.com\/images\/105278\/59\/1052785904.jpg\" alt=\"Port of Hambantota\" width=\"705\" height=\"375\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"b-inject__copy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Hambantota_Port.jpg\">\u00a9 PHOTO: DENETH17<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"b-inject__content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/asia\/201704191052785800-sri-lanka-china-india-ports\/\">Sri Lanka Plays Game of Ports With China and India in Indian Ocean<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>New Delhi (Sputnik)\u00a0\u2014 During the Sri Lankan Prime Minister&#8217;s visit, the two countries will finalize the MoU for\u00a0joint development of\u00a0Trincomalee port to\u00a0set up\u00a0a petroleum refinery and a land lease agreement. When Modi visits Sri Lanka, the two countries are due to\u00a0sign other agreements.&#8221;Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will be traveling to\u00a0India on\u00a0a working visit from\u00a0April 25 to\u00a029, 2017,&#8221; Ministry of\u00a0External Affairs spokesperson Gopal Baglay said.<\/p>\n<p>During his five-day visit, Wickremesinghe will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Road Transport and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari.<\/p>\n<p class=\"marker-quote1\">&#8220;The visit of\u00a0the Prime Minister of\u00a0Sri Lanka to\u00a0India [on] April 25 is part of\u00a0our continuing engagement with\u00a0the Government of\u00a0Sri Lanka at\u00a0the highest level,&#8221; the MEA spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>India and Sri Lanka will hold discussions on\u00a0the Economic and Technology Cooperation Agreement. Apart from\u00a0that, the two sides are likely to\u00a0discuss the contentious fisherman&#8217;s issue, which has rankled ties between\u00a0the two countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Sputnik Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is scheduled to visit India from April 25 to April 29 to strengthen economic cooperation between the two neighbors. His visit will also set the agenda for the upcoming visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Sri Lanka in May. \u00a9 PHOTO: DENETH17 Sri Lanka Plays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}