Chinese President – Xi Jinping has said that he stands ‘ready to work’ with the newly elected President of Sri Lanka – Anura Kumara Dissanayake.
In a congratulatory message, the Chinese President has said, “I attach great importance to the development of China-Sri Lanka relations, and stand ready to work with you to jointly carry forward our traditional friendship, consolidate political mutual trust, achieve more fruitful outcomes on high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, so as to advance the sustained and steady growth of China-Sri Lanka strategic cooperative partnership based on sincere mutual assistance and everlasting friendship and bring more benefits to the two peoples.”
The complete statement is as follows :
