Modi comes in Colombo on landmark trip, to guide Sri Lanka away from China

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Narendra Modi began the first official visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Sri Lanka in nearly three decades on Friday, looking to reassert New Delhi ' s influence over Colombo after its drift towards China. Modi reached the Sri Lankan capital Colombo early on Friday during which he is expected to hold talks with the country ' s top leadership only weeks after Sri Lanka ' s newly-elected leader Maithripala Sirisena made India his first port of call as president. PM Modi was received by Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe at the airport after he arrived in Colombo for a two-day visit at 5.25am following an overnight journey from Port Louis in Mauritius in a special Air India plane. Sri Lanka is the final stop of his three-nation tour of Indian Ocean island nations that took him to Seychelles and Mauritius. PM Modi, who is the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Lanka in 28 years, will hold summit talks with Sirisena. He will also hold talks with Wickramasinghe. "I see this visit as an opportunity to further strengthen our relationship in all its dimensions - political, strategic, economic, cultural, and above all, people to people contacts," he had said in his again departure statement. Modi will also address the Sri Lankan Parliament during his visit. He will then travel north on Saturday for a landmark visit to the Jaffna peninsula, home to the island ' s Tamil minority and which bore the brunt of a 37-year separatist war in which India was intricately involved.
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