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Sri Lanka Minister meets Pranab

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Sri Lanka Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama calling on External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Monday.

New Delhi: Sri Lanka Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama met External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday and formally conveyed his government’s invitation to India to attend the coming SAARC summit in Colombo.

The summit, the 15th of the South Asian grouping, is to held in the beginning of August.

According to the Ministry of External Affairs, Mr. Bogollagama also briefed the Indian side on the preparations for the coming summit and highlighted the need to continue the theme of connectivity which was the focus of the 14th summit in Delhi last year.

The two Ministers discussed other SAARC-related issues such as the SAARC Development Fund, SAARC Standards Organization, South-Asia University and the SAARC Food Bank. The developments in Sri Lanka and other regional issues also came up for discussion.

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