Swaraj to Travel to Lanka Tomorrow for Indian Ocean Conference

India Today

31 August 2017

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will travel to Colombo tomorrow to attend two-day Indian Ocean Conference, the Ministry said here today.

During the visit, Swaraj will be calling on the President of Sri Lanka, Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, a statement from the External Affairs Ministry said.

The two-day conference is being jointly organised by the India Foundation, the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore, and the National Institute of Fundamental Studies (NIFS), Colombo, the Ministry said.

Swaraj will address the inaugural session of the conference.

“The theme of this year’s conference is Peace, Progress and Prosperity and will involve participants from more than 35 countries. The first edition of the Indian Ocean Conference was held in Singapore in September 2016,” it said.

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