Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa has sought ways and means of further enhancing economic cooperation with India.
Leaving for India today, he had met with the Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister of India Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi.
Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Finance said Minister Rajapaksa and the Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister of India discussed a range of issues pertaining to bilateral economic cooperation during the meeting.
Minister Basil Rajapaksa extended his gratitude for the support that India has provided to Sri Lanka in many different spheres through economic cooperation programmes.
They discussed ways and means by which the existing bilateral economic cooperation programmes between the two countries could be further developed and enhanced.
The Ministry further said an economist by profession, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman has been the Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister of India since May 2019.
Meanwhile, Minister Basil Rajapaksa also visited the Sulabh International Social Service Organization in India.
During the meeting, he had met with the organization’s founder Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak Sulabh Gram.
The Finance Minister had also experimented with cooking using biogas during his visit to India. (NewsWire)
