Modi's visit to Sri Lanka
India and Sri Lanka on Friday signed four bilateral pacts —
agreement on visa, customs, youth development and building Rabindranath Tagore
memorial — during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first tour to the island
country. India stands ready to help Trincomalee become a
petroleum hub and announced that New Delhi will provide a fresh Line of Credit
of up to USD 318 million for the railways sector in Lanka. The Prime
Minister will visit the peninsular area of Jaffna home to the island's Tamil
minority and which bore the brunt of a 37-year separatist war in which .India
was intricately involved.
Rajiv Gandhi was the last prime minister to visit Sri Lanka in
1987.
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