It is being seen as an endeavor by Sri Lanka to console India's worries of developing Chinese key vicinity in the island country. The issue of successive conflicts over anglers and decision of a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) are relied upon to be on the motivation.
In Delhi, Mr. Wickremesinghe will hold chats with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Pranab Mukherjee and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.
Anglers issue
The regular captures of Indian anglers by Sri Lanka will figure unmistakably as Mr. Wickremesinghe had before taken an intense stand on the issue furthermore made a discussion just before Mr. Modi's visit to Sri Lanka in March when he said Indian anglers poaching in Sri Lankan waters could be shot.
In front of Mr. Wickremesinghe's flight to India, Sri Lanka on Sunday discharged 16 Indian anglers as a motion of goodwill.
In March, in front of Mr. Modi's visit to Sri Lanka — the first such visit in 25 years — 86 Indian anglers captured by the Sri Lankan Navy were discharged.
Another issue that will figure unmistakably is the execution of the thirteenth amendment which calls for devolution of forces to territories.
Mr. Modi, on his visit to Jaffna, had called for right on time devolution of forces to assemble a future that obliges the goals of all social orders including Tamils for an "existence of uniformity, equity, peace and pride in a united Lanka". "We will actualize the thirteenth amendment inside of a unitary state," Mr. Wickremesinghe had said accordingly.
These two issues were a noteworthy reason for erosion in the reciprocal relationship amid the administration of Mahinda Rajapaksa notwithstanding his apparent tilt towards China. Indian misgivings in such manner were further uplifted when Chinese submarines twice docked in Sri Lanka. Then again, his successor President Maithripala Sirisena has guaranteed that the ace China tilt would be adjusted.
The proposed Sri Lanka determination at the U.N. Human Rights Council in the not so distant future is likewise anticipated that would figure in the discussi
