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Minister Karunanayake said India had discussed the subject of Sri Lanka joining the OBOR project with Sri Lanka’s president Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. “We are a small country and our foreign policy is friends with all, enemies with none,” he said.
He said Sri Lanka has been a key point in international shipping routes that have been criss-crossing from east to west for several hundreds of years and joining OBOR was a natural consequence of this.
China’s OBOR project aims to put billions of dollars in infrastructure projects including railways, ports and power grids across Asia, Africa and Europe.