COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka‘s Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa will visit India this month, the Indian High Commission here has announced, amidst an unprecedented financial crisis in the island nation. This announcement came after Rajapaksa spoke over the telephone with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on March 8. A tweet from the High Commission said that India had assured Sri Lanka “support in all possible ways”. Rajapaksa’s visit has been on hold since late February. Sri Lanka was to seal a one-billion-dollar loan from India during the Rajapaksa visit. (PTI)
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