Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda who is to complete his tenure in Delhi shortly, paid a farewell call on India’s Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at the Finance Ministry in New Delhi.
The High Commissioner expressed his appreciation to Minister Sitharaman for the support and guidance she provided during his tenure. HC Moragoda thanked the Minister for her personal intervention in providing Sri Lanka with close to US$ 4 billion to stabilize the economy during last year’s financial crisis.
High Commissioner Moragoda thanked Minister Sitharaman for the leadership that the Indian Government took towards the realization of the International Monetary Fund’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF) Arrangement for Sri Lanka. He thanked Minister Sitharaman for her personal involvement in taking up Sri Lanka’s case with bilateral development partners as well as multilateral financial agencies including the IMF.
As a token of appreciation and goodwill, High Commissioner Moragoda presented to Minister Sitharaman two volumes of the publication Urumayaka Arumaya by the Archaeology Department of Sri Lanka featuring the murals of the Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara, which also include several murals that depict the gift of Buddhism to Sri Lanka from India, and a stone obtained from the stream flowing besides the Seetha Amman Temple in Seetha Eliya (Ashoka Vatika) in Sri Lanka.
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