Ajit Doval is anticipated to overview the deliberations of the Colombo Safety Caucus, a regional initiative that started as a trilateral effort between India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. | Picture Credit score: PTI
Nationwide Safety Adviser (NSA) Ajit Okay. Doval arrived in Colombo on Thursday (29 August 2024) morning, official sources mentioned. The Hinduto observe up on the continuing Colombo Safety Caucus (CSC) initiative. He’s additionally scheduled to satisfy political leaders in Colombo.
There isn’t any official assertion but on Mr Doval’s go to, which comes about three weeks earlier than Sri Lanka’s presidential election scheduled for September 21. Colombo-based political sources from totally different political events confirmed that they have been invited to satisfy the senior Indian official.
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Throughout his go to, Mr. Doval is scheduled to overview the deliberations of the Colombo Safety Caucus, a regional initiative that started as a trilateral effort between India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives and has since been expanded to incorporate Mauritius and Bangladesh as members and Seychelles as an observer.
The sixth NSA-level assembly was held in Mauritius in December 2023, and the following assembly of the safety chiefs will probably be held in India later this yr, in keeping with a press release from the Ministry of Exterior Affairs issued final month.
The eighth assembly of the CSC on the stage of deputy ministers of nationwide safety was held nearly on July 10. India, Mauritius, Maldives and Sri Lanka welcomed Bangladesh because the fifth member state of the grouping created to counter China’s rising affect within the Indian Ocean area. Seychelles participated as an observer.
