Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will be making a brief stopover in Sri Lanka on his way back to India from the Maldives, becomes the first foreign leader to visit the island nation after the deadly Easter terror attack that killed more than 250 people on April 21.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay an official visit to Sri Lanka after completing his bilateral engagements in the Maldives early next month, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said on Friday.
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena called on foreign states’ representatives to lift travel restrictions they issued for their citizens after the Easter deadly blasts, stressing that national security had been ensured in the South Asian island country, local media reported on Wednesday.
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said on Friday that terrorists who carried out the Easter blasts have a link to drug trade.
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena will declare a nationwide emergency from midnight on Monday following Easter Sunday suicide bomb blasts at churches and luxury hotels that killed 290 people and wounded more than 500.
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has announced that the country’s Parliament will be reconvened on November 14.
Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena promulgated a state of emergency for a limited period of one week in the country by bringing into force Section 2 of the Public Security Ordinance, Sri Lankan president’s media division said.
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