New Delhi: While the government remained disappointed that Sri Lanka denied the agreement with India and Japan to develop the East Container Terminal (etc.) in Port Colombo, he saw as a “useful step” of Lanka’s decision to enter $ 700 million agreements with the Adani Group for Developing other terminals in the same port.
It was announced right in front of the visit of the Sri Lankan Sri Lanka, the agreement for the Terminal Container (WCT), although it did not involve the Indian government, even though it did not involve the Indian government, although it did not involve the government, allowing the presence of the company India in an important strategic port where China funded several megaprathy.
Read Secretary Alsoforeign Shringla started a 4-day visit to Secretary Sri Lankaforeign Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Saturday starting his visit to Sri Lanka where he would meet the highest leadership, including President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Perdana Minister of Mahinda Rajapak SA, and review bilateral relations between India and the island state.
Shringla arrived Ringla will try to involve Sri Lanka at the political level during a 4 day trip who will also see him visit Jaffna, Trincomalee and Kandy.
“The visit of the Secretary of the Foreign Secretary will provide an opportunity to review our bilateral bond, the progress of ongoing bilateral projects and sustainable cooperation to overcome covid related disorders, ” said the government in a statement.
Shringla is expected to summon the two President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and PM Mahinda Rajapaksa during a visit.
While international media has described the WCT agreement when India’s move against the growing Chinese influence, the official source here said India still saw Sri Lanka’s unilateral decision to get out of the international agreement for a very unfortunate.
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General Naravane was also operational that the decision was associated with protests by trade unions, who did not seem to want the involvement of foreign forces in the project, it did not help that Lanka’s volte came at a time was seen as going out of his way to facilitate Chinese investment even in the middle of a pandemic .
While India did not reject China’s economic activity, he wanted Sri Lanka to deal in the same way with Indian-funded projects in areas such as ports and energy.
The Trincomalee Oil Farm project is seen as an example of a lack of progress that is a concern of India.
India also wants Sri Lanka to pay attention to Indian security interest while dealing with China.
The 1987 bilateral agreement also requires that there are no Lanka ports available for military use by any country in a way of prejudicial on Indian interests’.
Sri Lanka will allow the Adani Group, and a local conglomerate, 85 percent of the shares in the WCT while the ECT proposal only requires 49 percent of the shares for India and Japan.
The government’s source said the agreement that was announced this week for the WCT was a ‘useful development “because it was important for India to be present at the Port of Colombo and that it was fine even if it was in the form of an Indian company.