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India’s NSA to meet President, Gota and Sirisena
View(s):India’s National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval, who will be in Sri Lanka tomorrow, is to meet the opposition’s common candidate Maithripala Sirisena, the Sunday Times learns.
Mr. Doval, who will be here to deliver the keynote address at “Galle Dialogue 2014,” will also meet President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
He will also meet the United National Party’s National Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga.
Mr. Doval has also scheduled meetings with leaders of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC).
The ‘Galle Dialogue 2014,’ the two-day international conference on maritime security and cooperation, opens tomorrow in Galle with representatives from about 60 countries attending.
The theme for “Galle Dialogue 2014” organised by the Sri Lanka Navy is “Cooperation and Collaboration for Maritime Prosperity”.
Meanwhile senior BJP member Subramanian Swamy has written to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggesting that to build a new atmosphere of amity between India and Sri Lanka, he should direct officials visiting Sri Lanka “to ensure that the Sri Lankan Government be kept pre-informed of any closed-door meetings these officials hold with pro-LTTE TNA politicians and rebel candidates in the forthcoming elections.” Otherwise, these candidates would propagate that “India is supporting them while Sinhala chauvinists groups would denounce India for the double dealing,” he said.