Russian Foreign Minister to visit Sri Lanka

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is scheduled to visit Sri Lanka, the Government news portal quoted the Foreign Ministry as saying. Lavrov is visiting Sri Lanka on an invitation extended to him by the Deputy Foreign Minister, Ajith P. Perera.

Perera said he invited the Russian Foreign Minister to tour the country when he visited Russia last week for a conference. The Deputy Foreign Minister was quoted in the report as saying that during Lavrov's visit to the country a number of agreements between the two countries will be signed. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov who is fluent in Sinhalese, has been in Sri Lanka from 1972 -1976 as a diplomat of the then Soviet Union. He also visited the island in October 2009 at the invitation of then Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama.

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