Namal among key ministers at Gotabaya-Xi Zoom talks

COLOMBO: Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke with Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Zoom.

The two leaders shared their experience on administrative matters, according to reports cited by dailyness.lk.

Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardane, Education Minister and Chairman of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), Prof.G.L. Peiris, Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa, SLPP General Secretary MP Sagara Kariyawasam and several provincial councillors joined discussion.

Head of the International Liaison Department of the Communist Party of China, Song Tao, Communist Party Secretary of Hainan province Liu Cigui and several other officials participated.

China has earlier raised objections to what it called US bullying of Sri Lanka after Washington said the island nation must make “difficult but necessary choices” regarding its ties with China.

“We are firmly opposed to the United States taking the opportunity of the State Secretary’s visit to sow and interfere in China-Sri Lanka relations, and to coerce and bully Sri Lanka,” the embassy said in a recent statement.