Sri Lanka President arrives in China

[Lankan Ranger]

Sri Lanka President arrives in China

Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing early Tuesday morning on an official visit at the invitation of the Chinese government.

Executive Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of China Zhang Zhijun warmly received the President and the Sri Lankan delegation at the airport.

President Rajapaksa is on a four-day official visit to China on an invitation extended by his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao during the bilateral meeting held in St. Petersburg, Russia this June.

During his stay in Beijing and Shenzhen, President Rajapaksa will hold bilateral meetings with the Chinese President Hu Jintao and the Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.

The President will also participate in the opening ceremony of the World University Games, known as XXVI Summer Universiade and held in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China from August 12-23 as an honored guest.

Sri Lanka's External Affairs Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris, Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayake, Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga, Sri Lanka Ambassador in China Ranjith Uyangoda and Chinese Ambassador in Sri Lanka Mrs. Yang Xiu Ping were also present.

Sri Lanka : Sri Lanka President arrives in China on an official visit

 

[Lankan Ranger]

Welcome to China

President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is on a state visit to China was warmly welcomed at the Beijing Capital International Airport by the Chinese Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Zang Sejun.

 

[revu]

^^The next potential buyer of J-10 and HQ-9.

Welcome to China

 

[Lankan Ranger]

^^The next potential buyer of J-10 and HQ-9.

Welcome to China

Yes, for sure....

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Welcome to China good friend.

 

[aimarraul]

have a nice visit

 

[Mani2020]

Interesting timing of the visit , isn't it? couple of days ago american jets violated Sri-Lankan airspace and two days later Sri-lankan president is in China


Would be interesting to know if the visit was pre-planned or not

 

[ao333]

String of pearl...

 

[Spring Onion]

Sri Lanka should sign defence deals with China.

Invite China and facilitate her viz a viz Indian ocean that will protect Sri Lanka as well

 

[Mani2020]

Sri Lanka should sign defence deals with China.

Invite China and facilitate her viz a viz Indian ocean that will protect Sri Lanka as well

I wonder if Sri-Lanka has such budget to sign some big deals , But surely they are looking for replacements of their old aircrafts but reportedly they selected mig-29 for that. So J-10 will be out of question so might be jf-17 but yeah something about light arms or tanks