PM in Japan for talks with counterpart

TOKYO: Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka yesterday arrived in Japan for talks with counterpart Yasuo Fukuda, officials said.

Wickramanayaka will attend the opening ceremony of the Sri Lanka Cultural Heritage Exhibition in Tokyo tomorrow before meeting Fukuda on Wednesday afternoon, a Foreign Ministry official said.

“The primary purpose of his visit here is to attend the opening ceremony of the exhibition which the Sri Lankan Government co-organised with a Japanese newspaper company,” the official said.

AFP