by Etger Lefkovits
(March 23, Jerusalem, Sri Lanka Guardian) Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake arrived in Israel on Sunday, in the first visit by a Sri Lankan premier to the country, according to Israel Daily “the Jerusalem Post”.
Sri Lanka restored diplomatic ties with Israel in 2000, despite objections from the island's Muslim minority.
During his four-day working visit, Wickremanayake is to meet with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and President Shimon Peres, and travel to the West Bank for talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, the paper reported.
On Monday he will first visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, and then Sderot.
Last year, Israel exported about $60 million in goods to the South Asian nation, while imports were around $40m., according to the Foreign Ministry in Israel.
- Sri Lanka Guardian
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I think we have to be careful not to get our fingers into too many pies.
Visiting Iran, and then Isreal would only lead to both looking at us with suspicion. We have to decide who our friends are and stick with them.
Serbia always stuck by Russia and thats why even with western support Kosovo can not get UN recognition.
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