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Navy main Admiral Dinesh K. Tripathi connected Monday (September 22, 2025) began a four-day sojourn to Sri Lanka to clasp talks with the apical subject brass of the land federation connected further expanding bilateral defence ties successful the maritime domain.
The Navy chief's sojourn to Sri Lanka comes amid concerns successful New Delhi implicit China's persistent attempts to grow its strategical power successful the land nation.
In Colombo, Admiral Tripathi volition besides conscionable Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya too holding wide-ranging talks with the 3 work chiefs and different elder officials.
“The talks volition beryllium focussed connected a wide spectrum of matters with accent connected maritime security, capableness enhancement, grooming and identifying avenues to fortify bilateral cooperation,” officials said.
"The Chief of Naval Staff's engagements successful Sri Lanka are structured astatine deepening bonds of friendship, paving the mode for enhanced knowing successful cardinal areas of shared strategical and maritime interests, successful enactment with the imaginativeness of 'MAHASAGAR'," an authoritative readout said.
"The sojourn reaffirms the time-tested India-Sri Lanka relations, anchored connected communal respect, maritime spot and a shared imaginativeness for bid and stableness successful the Indian Ocean Region," it said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the imaginativeness MAHASAGAR oregon 'Mutual and Holistic Advancement for Security and Growth Across Regions' for India's engagement with the Global South during his sojourn to Mauritius successful March.
Admiral Tripathi would besides beryllium participating successful the 12th variation of Galle Dialogue astatine Colombo connected the taxable 'Maritime Outlook of the Indian Ocean nether Changing Dynamics'. India has been eyeing to further grow maritime information practice with Sri Lanka.
In June, State-run Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) decided to get a controlling involvement successful Sri Lanka's Colombo Dockyard PLC nether a $52.96 cardinal deal, a determination that is expected to grow India's strategical beingness successful the land nation.
The Indian Navy regularly interacts with the Sri Lanka Navy done mean of yearly defence dialog and unit talks.
The 2 navies besides clasp Sri Lanka-India Naval Exercise (SLINEX), transition exercises and regularly prosecute successful grooming and hydrography exchanges.
