MYANMAR: Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid says he will discuss key issues with his Sri Lankan counterpart in Myanmar

Record ID: 1377117

  • Title: MYANMAR: Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid says he will discuss key issues with his Sri Lankan counterpart in Myanmar
  • Date: 3rd March 2014
  • Summary: NAY PYI TAW, MYANMAR (MARCH 03, 2014) (ANI-NO ACCESS BBC) INDIA'S PRIME MINISTER, MANMOHAN SINGH SHAKING HANDS WITH MYANMAR PRESIDENT THEIN SEIN SINGH TALKING TO SEIN SINGH SHAKING HANDS WITH OFFICIALS INDIAN AND MYANMAR OFFICIALS SITTING SINGH AND SEIN SITTING SINGH AND SEIN TALKING (SOUNDBITE) (English) INDIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER, SALMAN KHURSHID, SAYING: "This is a BIMSTEC gathering. And at BIMSTEC gathering there are lot of bilaterals between heads of government and it's part of that, there will be a meeting between them as well, they know each other and they are heads of two neighbouring countries and therefore they may have whole lot of things to discuss. Maybe they will discuss progress that we expect would have happened in Sri Lanka. Maybe they will discuss how the housing process is going on, maybe they will discuss what happened in the visit of the Sri Lankan delegations to South Africa." SINGH AND SEIN SITTING SINGH, SEIN AND OFFICIALS STANDING/HAVING PHOTO TAKEN PHOTOS BEING TAKEN OF LEADERS
  • Embargoed: 18th March 2014 19:53
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  • Location: Myanmar
  • Country: Myanmar
  • Topics: International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA1HSS3AF0DMWBU5OROSMHKJ2UM
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3
  • Story Text: India's foreign minister, Salman Khurshid, said on Monday (March 03) that there are many key issues to discuss with his Sri Lankan counterpart at the Bay Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit in Myanmar.
    "This is a BIMSTEC gathering. There are lot of bilateral between heads of government and its part of that, there will be a meeting between them as well, they know each other and they are heads of two neighbouring countries and therefore they may have whole lot of things to discuss. Maybe they will discuss progress that we expect to happen in Sri Lanka. Maybe they will discuss how the housing process is going on, or maybe they will discuss what happened in the visit of the Sri Lankan delegations to South Africa," said Khurshid.
    Representatives from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Bhutan and Nepal will attend the two-day summit in the Myanmar capital Nay Pyi Taw.
    The Indian delegation is headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
    Earlier, Singh met Myanmar President Thein Sein, during what could be his last foreign visit as PM and pushed the South and East Asian countries for a "collective vision" to deal with security challenges stemming from terrorism as well as international crime and drug trafficking, to bring about peace, stability and development in Asia.
    Singh also met his newly-elected Nepalese counterpart Sushil Koirala on the summit sidelines.
    The Indian Prime Minister is likely to use this conference to renew contacts with the seven-nation leaders.
    India and Sri Lanka, who enjoy strong cultural bonds, have shared a complex diplomatic relationship since the 1980s.
    India first trained Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels, fighting for a separate Tamil state in the north and east of the island, in the early 1980s but later sent peacekeeping troops to enforce a peace accord.
    New Delhi, however, moved away from the island's bloody conflict after the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, which was blamed on the Tamil Tigers.
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