Sushma to visit Sri Lanka over fishermen issues today

Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday left for Colombo on a two-day visit during which she is expected to discuss the fishermen’s issue and rights of minority Tamils with the top Sri Lankan leadership. 

Swaraj and her Sri Lankan counterpart Mangala Samaraweera will co-chair the 9th Joint Commission meeting to discuss key bilateral and regional issues in Colombo later today.

The discussions will cover the entire gamut of relationship pertaining to economic cooperation, trade, power and energy, technical and maritime cooperation, social, cultural and educational matters, science and technology, defence cooperation, health, civil aviation, tourism and people-to-people contact. The joint commission was set up in 1992 as a mechanism to address issues of bilateral cooperation. 

The last meeting of the Joint Commission was held in New Delhi in January 2013. (dnaindia)

-Agencies