{"id":28058,"date":"2014-02-13T00:19:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T05:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=28058"},"modified":"2014-02-13T00:30:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T05:30:19","slug":"china-and-sri-lanka-could-sign-a-free-trade-agreement-by-the-end-of-year-gl-peiris-tells-xinhua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=28058","title":{"rendered":"China and Sri Lanka could sign a Free Trade Agreement by the end of the year -GL Peiris Tells “Xinhua”"},"content":{"rendered":"

China and Sri Lanka could sign a free trade agreement by the end of the year, state news agency Xinhua cited Sri Lanka’s foreign minister as saying.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris, who is on a four-day visit to China, said “the feasibility study is on the verge of completion”.<\/p>\n

Peiris told Xinhua in an interview on Wednesday it would be the most significant bilateral achievement since the 1952 Rubber-Rice Pact, when rubber and rice was bartered between China and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

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China has increasingly tight ties with Sri Lanka, funding airports, roads, railways and ports. Those ties have unsettled India, traditionally Sri Lanka’s closest economic partner.<\/p>\n

The island of 21 million people just off India’s southern tip is at the forefront of competition between Asian giants China and India.<\/p>\n

China has consistently defended Sri Lanka’s rights record, which came under fire at a Commonwealth summit in November, saying Colombo had made big strides in promoting human rights and achieving national reconciliation over the years.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, China’s Foreign Minister offered support for Sri Lanka after the United States said it would table a UN. resolution against Colombo over its human rights record.<\/p>\n

President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government, which finally crushed a 26-year rebellion by ethnic minority Tamil separatists in 2009, has rejected calls for an international inquiry into atrocities during the civil war.
\nCourtesy:Ceylon Today<\/p>\n

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China and Sri Lanka could sign a free trade agreement by the end of the year, state news agency Xinhua cited Sri Lanka’s foreign minister as saying. Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris, who is on a four-day visit to China, said “the feasibility study is on the verge of completion”. Peiris told Xinhua in …<\/p>\n

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