27 July 2023 10:14 am Views - 2198
French President Emmanuel Macron is scheduled to make a brief visit to Colombo tomorrow night (28) while returning from Papua New Guinea and will hold discussions with President Ranil Wickremesinghe, official sources confirmed to the Daily Mirror.
The visiting French President is scheduled to stay for a few hours in Colombo, the official added. Last month President Wickremesinghe was in France on an official visit, on the invitation of his French counterpart Macron to address a high-level panel discussion in Paris at the Global Leaders’ Summit for a New Global Financing Pact.
According to the French media, President Macron is currently on a visit to the south-west Pacific region in a “historic” visit designed to bolster his Indo-Pacific strategy and reaffirm France’s role in the region.(Sunil Jayasiri)