FTA with Sri Lanka to be finalised this year: Singapore PM

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Feb 20, 2017
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The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Sri Lanka and Singapore is expected to be finalised before end of this year, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said following a dinner with Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe last week.

"We talked about the FTA that we are negotiating, which we hope to complete this year. He invited me to visit Sri Lanka – hopefully to sign the FTA!" he said in a Face Book post.

He said that Prime Minister Wickremesinghe is a good friend of Singapore, having visited us many times (most recently for the South Asian Diaspora Convention last July.