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President to meet Modi on Saturday
View(s):President Maithiripala Sirisena will meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi next Saturday in New Delhi, a spokesman for the President’s Office said. The meeting will take place when the President comes back from Britain.
President Sirisena is visiting India on an invitation extended to him by the ruling Bharathiya Janatha Party (BJP) to attend a religious festival at Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh. The invitation was personally handed over in Colombo by a BJP secretary.
In London, President Sirisena will be attending the international anti-corruption summit hosted by British Prime Minister David Cameron.
It will bring together world leaders, business and civil society leaders to agree on a package of practical steps to expose corruption, punish the perpetrators and support those affected by corruption.