Colombo [Sri Lanka], Recalling his meeting with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar during his recent visit to the island nation, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe said he thanks him and Prime Minister Narendra Modi your continued support to Sri Lanka. .

Recalling Jaishankar's recent visit to Sri Lanka, Wickremesinghe said the houses built under the Indian Housing Project in Kandy, Nuwara Eliya and Matale were inaugurated at that time.

Sharing a post on Lanka under the new government. We inaugurate houses built under the Indian mandate. Housing project in Kandy, Nuwara Eliya and Matale Thanks to @JeevanThondaman.

and @S_Thondaman for coordinating this project, which benefits the Tamil community of Indian origin."

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A Sea Rescue Coordination Center was formally operationalized, with a main center in Colombo and a sub-centre in Hambantota.

"We also delivered model village houses in Colombo and Trincomalee. We formally commissioned the Sea Rescue Coordination Centre, with a main center in Colombo, a sub-centre in Hambantota and unmanned facilities along the entire coast of Sri Lanka," Wickremesinghe said.

"I thank Prime Minister @narendramodi and @DrSJaishankar for their continued support to Sri Lanka," he added.

Jaishankar's recently concluded visit to the island nation, according to MEA, underlines the central place Sri Lanka occupies in India's 'neighbourhood first' policy and SAGAR's vision.

It was S Jaishankar's first bilateral visit as External Affairs Minister after his re-election. His visit to Colombo comes after Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe's recent visit to India to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan on June 9.

During his visit, Jaishankar called on Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena.

Wickremesinghe received him at the President's Office in a one-on-one meeting, followed by delegation-level talks that included Sri Lanka's Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation, Nimal Siripala de Silva, Sri Lanka's Minister of Agriculture and Plantation Industries Lanka, Mahinda Amaraweera, Sri Lanka Foreign Minister Ali Sabry and Sri Lanka Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera.

Jaishankar also met his counterpart, External Affairs Minister Ali Sabry.