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Sri Lankan President arrives on three-day India visit | Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday evening on a three-day visit to India. It has been reported that President Rajapaksa will be meeting Finance
Minister Pranab Mukherjee later today. The visiting President is expected to hold
talks with Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, President Pratibha Devisingh Patil
and External Affairs Minister S M Krishna during his stay. The visit comes amid
growing concern in Sri Lanka over a proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership
Agreement (CEPA) between the two neighbours. President Rajapaksa is expected to
help the island nation enlist more support from India in rebuilding and rehabilitating
people in the northern part of the country, which was liberated from the Tamil
Tigers last year ending decades of strife.
Chennai: Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) founder Vaiko and several
other Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) and Communist Party of India (CPI) leaders
were taken into preventive custody on Tuesday, when they attempted to stage
demonstrations at various places here to protest against the visit of Sri Lankan President
Mahinda Rajapaksa to India. The protestors raised black flags near Nageswara Rao Park
and proceeded towards the Sri Lankan Deputy High Commissioner's office, where
they were detained. It has been reported that Vaiko addressed the protestors and
alleged that thousands of minority Tamil civilians were killed towards the end
of the war between the Sri Lankan forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
(LTTE) last year. Demanding that the Sri Lankan President be tried in an international
court of law, Vaiko also alleged that Rajapaksa was responsible for killings of
many innocent Tamils. The Sri Lankan President will begin his three-day India
visit from Tuesday and is expected to hold talks with Prime Minister Dr Manmohan
Singh, President Pratibha Devisingh Patil and External Affairs Minister S M Krishna.
President Rajapaksa is expected to help the island nation enlist more support
from India in rebuilding and rehabilitating people in the northern part of the
country, which was liberated from the Tamil Tigers last year ending decades of
strife. |
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