{"id":38492,"date":"2015-02-13T01:06:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T06:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=38492"},"modified":"2015-02-13T01:06:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T06:06:12","slug":"president-sirisena-will-discuss-with-prime-minister-modi-about-areas-of-possible-investment-in-sri-lanka-by-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=38492","title":{"rendered":"President Sirisena will Discuss with Prime Minister Modi  About Areas of Possible Investment in Sri Lanka by India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Meera Srinivasan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In his upcoming meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena is likely to discuss possible areas for Indian investment in Sri Lanka, a senior Minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Briefing the media on Cabinet decisions on Thursday, Plantations Minister and Leader of the House Lakshman Kiriella said investment, education and highways are high on the agenda for discussions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Asked if the Palk Bay conflict will be raised, he said: \u201cIt is an ongoing issue troubling both sides. The President will surely convey the concerns of our fishermen here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While investment will be a key theme, it is learnt that the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), which New Delhi has been pushing for, may not figure in this round of discussions. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe visit is mainly to establish a good rapport with New Delhi,\u201d said the Minister, who earlier said the Sri Lankan government will not partner China in anyway detrimental to India. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Modi is likely to visit Sri Lanka in March, following which President Sirisena is scheduled to visit China.<\/p>\n<p>Minister D.M. Swaminathan, who will be on the President\u2019s delegation to New Delhi, said the government would invite private investment as India had \u201cgiants\u201d like the Tatas and the Birlas who could further explore the Sri Lankan market.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka will also seek Indian assistance for the construction of 20,000 houses for workers in the plantation sector, who are Sri Lankan Tamils of recent Indian origin, in the island\u2019s Central Province.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCourtesy:The Hindu<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton38492\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D38492&amp;text=President%20Sirisena%20will%20Discuss%20with%20Prime%20Minister%20Modi%20%20About%20Areas%20of%20Possible%20Investment%20in%20Sri%20Lanka%20by%20India&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Meera Srinivasan In his upcoming meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena is likely to discuss possible areas for Indian investment in Sri Lanka, a senior Minister said. Briefing the media on Cabinet decisions on Thursday, Plantations Minister and Leader of the House Lakshman Kiriella said investment, education and highways &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=38492\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;President Sirisena will Discuss with Prime Minister Modi  About Areas of Possible Investment in Sri Lanka by India&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38493,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38492\/revisions\/38493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}