Indian High Commission offices to be opened in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Friday, 05 November 2010, 20:00 GMT]
India Foreign Affairs Minister, S. M. Krishna, who will be in Sri Lanka on 25 November on a three-day visit to participate in the Indo-Sri Lanka Economic Conference in Colombo will ceremoniously open the Jaffna offices of the Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka located in Ammaan Thoaddam in Jaffna, sources in Jaffna said. Minister S. M. Krishna is also expected to inaugurate the renovation of the railway track between Oamanthai and Kaangkeasanthu'rai at an event to be held at Oamanthai during his visit, the sources added. The government of India had taken the responsibility of renovating the above stretch of railway track.

The Indian Foreign Affairs will meet various persons including Sri Lanka political leaders and hold talks with them, the sources added.

Minister S. M. Krishna is expected to reveal India’s stand on the ethnic issue during his stay.