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Meeting connected the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit 2026 successful New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake “took stock” of advancement successful bilateral relations, according to the leaders’ societal media posts connected Friday (February 20, 2026).
“Strengthening relationship with a valued neighbour! It was fantastic gathering President Anura Kumara Dissanayake successful Delhi. We took banal of the advancement successful India-Sri Lanka relations successful the caller times. We besides discussed avenues of practice successful areas specified arsenic energy, connectivity, infrastructure, healthcare, skilling, culture, bluish system and more,” Mr. Modi said successful his station connected X.
President Dissanayake said the leaders held “extensive discussions connected strengthening our historical ties and expanding economic, trade, and taste cooperation”. Further, helium expressed gratitude for India’s “exceptional support” during the caller Cyclone Ditwah.
No notation of India-backed projects
The messages had nary notation of immoderate circumstantial India-backed project, or of the Tamil question, — and the pending governmental solution to it — that India has periodically raised with the Sri Lankan enactment successful the past. The leaders met little than 2 months aft External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar visited Colombo, arsenic Mr. Modi’s peculiar envoy, successful the aftermath of Cyclone Ditwah that ravaged the land nation, claiming 650 lives. As galore arsenic 173 radical are inactive missing. The clime daze lawsuit that battered Sri Lanka precocious successful November 2025, is 1 of the worst the land has witnessed since the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. In summation to supporting Sri Lanka successful contiguous alleviation and rescue efforts, India pledged a “reconstruction package” of $450 million.
PM Modi visited Sri Lanka successful April past year erstwhile the 2 sides inked 7 Memorandums of Understanding, successful areas including defence cooperation, energy, digitisation and health. His enactment with the Sri Lankan person besides came little than a fortnight aft the sojourn of Tilvin Silva, the General Secretary of Mr. Dissanayake’s Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP oregon People’s Liberation Front), the enactment starring the country’s ruling National People’s Power coalition.
