Express View on Wickremesinghe’s Delhi visit: Bridge to Colombo

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President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s two-day India visit last week, his first since becoming Sri Lanka’s top executive a year ago in the midst of civic chaos, was focused mostly on trade and economic relations. The vision document adopted by the two countries spoke about strengthening maritime, air, energy and people-to-people connectivity besides accelerating mutual cooperation in areas of tourism, power, trade, higher education, and skill development. The fishermen issue and the Tamil question did feature in Wickremesinghe’s talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi but though these issues have a resonance in the domestic politics of Tamil Nadu, both leaders preferred to...