The visiting Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will address Sri Lanka’s top business leaders on Friday, March 13, in Colombo.
The evening event, which is organised by the country’s premier chamber, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC), will see the attendance of 400 local business leaders. This is the first time an Indian Prime Minister is making a bilateral visit to Sri Lanka since the last such visit made by an Indian Premier in 1987.
CCC Chairman Suresh Shah will make the introductory speech at the upcoming forum, which would be followed by the speech of the Indian Prime Minister. “We, at the CCC, being the premier business chamber in the country, consider this as a unique opportunity to facilitate the business leaders of this country to listen to Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, the prime minister of one of the largest economies of the world and also Sri Lanka’s largest trading partner, to understand his vision and policy direction,” said Ceylon Chamber of Commerce CEO/Secretary General Mangala P.B. Yapa. Starting his three nation visit to the Seychelles, Mauritius and Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his visit to Sri Lanka is an opportunity to further strengthen the relationship in the areas of political, strategic, economic, cultural and above all, people to people contacts.