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Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya volition get successful New Delhi connected Thursday (October 16, 2025) for events and high-level meetings with Indian leaders and concern assemblage representatives, connected the heels of her sojourn to Beijing, wherever attended the ‘Global Leaders’ Meeting connected Women 2025.
During her three-day sojourn to India, her archetypal since assuming complaint arsenic Premier past year, Ms. Amarasuriya is scheduled to conscionable with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, who is scheduled to telephone connected her connected Thursday (October 16, 2025), according to authoritative sources successful New Delhi.
The visiting Sri Lankan person volition besides interact with representatives of concern chambers and manufacture bodies, officials said, arsenic India and Sri Lanka question to heighten concern successful trade, investment, and improvement cooperation.
PM Modi was successful Sri Lanka successful April 2025 and said helium was “grateful” for President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s “sensitivity towards Indian interests”.
President Dissanayake — the leftist person who was elected to the country’s apical bureau successful a watershed predetermination successful 2024 — and his authorities person vowed to prosecute a neutral overseas policy, including with India and China, some cardinal partners for the land nation.
On October 14, 2025, PM Amarasuriya met Chinese President Xi Jinping astatine the Great Hall of the People successful Beijing. “Our treatment focused connected strengthening bilateral cooperation, advancing improvement partnerships nether the Belt and Road Initiative, and deepening collaboration crossed aggregate sectors,” she said successful a societal media station pursuing the meeting.
A connection from the Chinese Foreign Ministry described China and Sri Lanka arsenic “fellow travellers” and said “China ever regards Sri Lanka arsenic a precedence successful its neighbourhood diplomacy”.
Further, President Xi, successful his gathering with PM Amarasuriya, said China stands acceptable to enactment with Sri Lanka connected “high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, grow practice successful larboard economy, modern agriculture, integer economy, greenish economy, tourism, and different areas to boost Sri Lanka’s economical and societal development.” The 2 sides agreed to fortify information cooperation, according to the statement.
Ms. Amarasuriya’s engagements successful New Delhi besides see a felicitation lawsuit astatine Hindu College, Delhi University, from wherever the academic-turned-politician obtained her archetypal degree.
An anthropologist by training, she was a salient dependable successful Sri Lankan academia, teaching astatine the Open University of Sri Lanka, earlier joining progressive politics. Her probe successful areas including intelligence health, gender, labour, and engagement arsenic an activistic successful campaigns for higher authorities spending connected nationalist acquisition drew attention. Prior to her introduction into authorities successful 2019, erstwhile the National People’s Power nominated her to Parliament, Ms. Amarasuriya served arsenic a subordinate of the Public Representations Committee connected Constitutional Reforms successful Sri Lanka, a Cabinet-appointed mechanics tasked with the archetypal country-wide nationalist consultations connected law reform.
