High Commissioner Moragoda seeks enhanced economic cooperation with India

Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda yesterday sought ways and means of further enhancing economic cooperation with India when he met Indian Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi.

Minister Sitharaman, recalling her visits to Sri Lanka, extended a warm welcome to High Commissioner Moragoda. The Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister of India and the High Commissioner discussed a range of issues pertaining to bilateral economic cooperation.

High Commissioner Moragoda thanked the Finance Minister for the support that India had provided Sri Lanka in many different spheres through her economic cooperation programs. They discussed ways and means by which the existing bilateral economic cooperation programs between the two countries could be further developed and enhanced. 

High Commissioner Moragoda also presented a copy of his policy road map ‘Integrated Country Strategy for Sri Lanka Diplomatic Missions in India 2021/2023’ to the Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister.

An economist by profession, Sitharaman has been the Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister of India since May 2019. Prior to that, she was the Indian Minister of Defence from 2017-2019. Sitharaman has also served as the State Minister of Finance and the State Minister (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry in India.