PM to deliver inaugural address of Indian Ocean Conference 2016 in Singapore

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Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will leave for Singapore today to participate in the Indian Ocean Conference 2016, a statement from Temple Trees said.. He has been invited to make the inaugural address. The event will be held at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore tomorrow and the day after.

The conference is organized by the Indian Foundation while the Sri Lankan Institute of Policy Studies, Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies as well as the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore will be the co-hosts. Leaders of the Indian Ocean nations have been invited to attend the event.

It will focus on the defence, economic, cultural and environmental matters of the region. A large number of persons including politicians, intellectuals, experts and officials are scheduled to take part in the event. The delegation led by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe is scheduled to leave the island tomorrow morning.

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