Image: The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh and his wife Smt. Gursharan Kaur with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Mr. Gordon Brown and his wife Mrs. Sarah Brown at a ceremonial reception, in New Delhi on January 21, 2008.(January 22, New Delhi, Sri Lanka Guardian) Leaders of Britain and India urged Sri Lanka to put forward a political solution to the over five decades old civil war between the Tamils and Singhalese. The Prime Minister of United Kingdom, Gordon Brown and the Prime Ministers of India Manmohan in a joint statement said that, there is no military solution to the conflict in Sri Lanka. Both Prime Ministers urged the Sri Lankan government to "put forward a credible devolution package as a key contribution to finding a political settlement".
They said that the devolution package should be "acceptable to all communities within the framework of a united Sri Lanka". The British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, said that his government strongly supports India's candidacy for a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council.
They said that the devolution package should be "acceptable to all communities within the framework of a united Sri Lanka". The British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, said that his government strongly supports India's candidacy for a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council.
Meanwhile The Prime Minister Brown has spoken of the "new and deepening relationship" between the UK and India at the conclusion of his two-day visit to the country.
Speaking at a press conference in New Delhi. the PM said that the two countries had established a "strategic partnership of equals" and had made progress in a number of shared priorites such as trade and the economy, health and education development, climate change and security and terrorism.
The Prime Minister, who was accompanied by a delegation of business leaders on his trip, announced that deals with a value of £10 billion were in the process of being concluded "for the benefit of both economies". Trade between the UK and India was increasing at a rate of 20 per cent a year, he added.
Mr Brown highlighted an aid package of £825 million that would help put four miillion more children in schools by 2011, and announced further assistance to help build 13 universites and science institutes around the country. A long-term education forum would also be established along with increased exchange of students between British and Indian universities, he said
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