Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has directed security agency heads to take all necessary steps to maintain peace and stability in the country during the post-election period, the President's Media Division (PMD) said on Thursday.
After deciding not to back President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lanka's largest political party in parliament split into two with 92 lawmakers pledging support for his re-election.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said PM Modi's victory makes it certain that the two leaders will continue to work together to strengthen India-Italy ties.
The two countries agreed to launch India's UPI (Unified Payments Interface) technology in the island nation, accelerate mutual cooperation in tourism, power, trade, higher education, and skill development.
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Wickremesinghe, in his capacity as the Finance Minister, will present the interim budget for the remainder of 2022 containing food ration schemes with essentials like rice, wheat flour and dal, adding nutritional assistance to the worst-hit groups of the population.
The ousted President holds a diplomatic passport that allows him entry into Thailand for 90 days.
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, China and Sri Lanka have stood together and helped each other, with their traditional friendship further enhanced, Xi said.
A breakaway faction supported his chief opponent, Dullas Alahaperuma, who till recently served as information minister in the Rajapaksa government.
In his next 45 years as a ruling or opposition leader, Mr Wickremesinghe was known as erudite but arrogant, and rich but relatively uncorrupt.
