With External Affairs Minister S M Krishna’s upcoming five-day visit to Sri Lanka starting on Thursday, India will be pushing for meaningful devolution of political powers in the island country, even as New Delhi still considers the Liberation of Tamil Tigers Eelam (LTTE) to be a “real threat”.
Government sources said that there is still a real threat from the LTTE forces — an assessment that was done by the Indian government agencies internally.
Sources said that Krishna, as agreed during Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s visit to New Delhi in June this year, will be pushing for a meaningful devolution package, building upon the 13th Amendment in the Sri Lankan Constitution to create the necessary conditions for a lasting political settlement.
Krishna will be co-chairing the seventh Joint Commission meeting, along with Lankan Foreign minister G L Peiris, and they will be reviewing the entire gamut of bilateral ties. The Joint Commission meeting is being held after five years, the last one having been in Colombo in 2005. Source by: Indian Express
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