Ấn Độ - Sri Lanka quan hệMối quan hệ giữa Ấn Độ và Sri Lanka là hơn 2.500 năm tuổi và cả hai bên đã xây dựng trên một di sản của trí tuệ, văn hóa, tôn giáo và ngôn ngữ tương tác. Những năm gần đây, mối quan hệ đã được đánh dấu bởi các liên hệ chặt chẽ ở cấp độ chính trị cao nhất, phát triển thương mại và đầu tư, hợp tác trong các lĩnh vực phát triển, giáo dục, văn hóa và quốc phòng, cũng như một sự hiểu biết rộng về các vấn đề lớn của quốc tế quan tâm.Song phương trao đổi ở các cấp độ trong những năm qua và các tiến bộ đáng kể trong việc thực hiện của dự án phát triển hỗ trợ cho các bên trong dời người (IDPs) và phần hoàn cảnh khó khăn của Sri Lanka, đô thị này có dân đã giúp tiếp tục xi măng các trái phiếu của tình hữu nghị giữa hai nước.Cuộc xung đột vũ trang lâu gần ba thập kỷ giữa quân đội Sri Lanka và những hổ giành quyền đến chấm dứt vào tháng 5 năm 2009. Trong suốt cuộc xung đột, Ấn Độ ủng hộ quyền của chính phủ Sri Lanka để hành động chống lại lực lượng khủng bố. Cùng lúc đó, nó chuyển tải ở cấp cao nhất, mối quan tâm sâu tại hoàn cảnh của Tamil chủ yếu là dân số, nhấn mạnh rằng quyền và phúc lợi của họ không nên có được enmeshed trong tình trạng chiến tranh chống lại những hổ giành quyền.The need for national reconciliation through a political settlement of the ethnic issue has been reiterated by India at the highest levels. India's consistent position is in favour of a negotiated political settlement, which is acceptable to all communities within the framework of a united Sri Lanka and which is consistent with democracy, pluralism and respect for human rights.Political RelationsPolitical relations have been marked by high-level exchanges of visits at regular intervals.President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited New Delhi in May 2014 to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the new government. Sri Lanka Fisheries and Aquatic Resource Development Minister Rajitha Senaratne visited New Delhi in January 2014. Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen visited India in January 2014 to attend the 5th SAARC Business Leaders Conclave in New Delhi. The Sri Lankan External Affairs Minister Prof. GL Peiris visited India in January 2014. Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa visited New Delhi in March 2014 to attend NSA - level Trilateral Meeting on Maritime Security Cooperation between India, Sri Lanka and Maldives. Then Prime Minister Singh also held a bilateral meeting with President Mahinda Rajapaksa on the margins of BIMSTEC meeting in Nay Pyi Thaw in Myanmar in March 2014.In 2013 too, there were many high level visits.The Sri Lankan Minister of External Affairs Prof. GL Peiris visited New Delhi in January 2013 to attend the 8th India-Sri Lanka Joint Commission Meeting. Minister forKinh tế phát triển Basil Rajapaksa viếng thăm Ấn Độ vào tháng 7 năm 2013 cho song phương tư vấn. Quốc phòng thư ký Gotabaya Rajapaksa viếng thăm Ấn Độ vào tháng 11 năm 2013. Một đoàn đại biểu nghị viện 12 thành viên, đứng đầu là sau đó, lãnh đạo phe đối lập ở Lok Sabha, Smt. quang Swaraj và bao gồm các đại diện của một số các đảng chính trị nổi bật từ cả hai viện của Quốc hội đã đến thăm Sri Lanka vào tháng 4 năm 2014. Một đoàn đại biểu đại diện cho nền tảng Ấn Độ do Shri Ravishankar Prasad, sau đó phó lãnh đạo của phe đối lập trong Rajyasabha, ghé thăm Sri Lanka vào tháng 6 năm 2013. Bộ trưởng thương mại Shri. S. R. Rao viếng thăm Sri Lanka vào tháng 6 năm 2013. Sau đó quốc gia an ninh cố vấn của Ấn Độ, Shivshankar Menon, viếng thăm Colombo vào tháng 7 năm 2013 để tham gia vào cuộc họp NSA cấp 2 trên ba bên hợp tác về an ninh hàng hải giữa Ấn Độ, Sri Lanka và Maldives. Sau đó trưởng của Hải quân nhân viên, đô đốc Devendra Kumar Joshi, viếng thăm Sri Lanka ngày 24-29 tháng mười một, 2013 để tham gia hội nghị hàng hải Galle đối thoại.Then External Affairs Minister (EAM) of India Shri Salman Khurshid, visited Sri Lanka on October 7-8, 2013. He called on the President of Sri Lanka and held bilateral talks with his counterpart. Agreements related to the Sampur Coal Power Project and the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for India’s Technical Assistance for Sri Lanka’s National Plan for a Trilingual Sri Lanka were signed during the visit. EAM also travelled to Jaffna and met with the Chief Minister of Northern Provincial Council. EAM also represented Prime Minister at the 22nd Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) held in Sri Lanka on 13-17 November, 2013.Commercial RelationsIndia's largest trade partner in South Asia is Sri Lanka. India in turn is Sri Lanka's largest trade partner globally. Trade between the two countries grew particularly rapidly after the entry into force of the India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement in March 2000.Bilateral trade in 2013 amounted to US$ 3.73 billion. Sri Lanka’s imports from India amounted US$ 3.2 billion and exports to India amounted US$ 543.86 million registering a decline of 9.85% and 4.78% respectively as compared to corresponding period of 2012.Sri Lanka has long been a priority destination for direct investment from India. India is among the four largest overall investors in Sri Lanka with cumulative investments over US$ 800 million. In 2013, Indian investment into Sri Lanka amounted to US$ 50.52 million.The main investments from India are in the areas of petroleum retail, hospitals, telecom, vanaspati, copper and other metal industries, real estate, telecommunication, hospitality & tourism, banking and financial services, IT and food processing (tea & fruit juices).The notable Indian investments committed in the past few years are: ITC Ltd., hotel project (US$ 140 million), Shree Renuka Sugar to set up a sugar refining plant at Hambantota (US$ 220 million), Dabur to set a fruit juice manufacturing plant (US$ 20 million), South City, Kolkata for real estate development in Colombo (US$ 400 million), Tata Housing project for real estate development (US$ 400 million), Krrish Mixed-development project in Colombo (US$ 450 million) and NTPC-CEB Joint Venture Coal Power project (over US$ 500 million).The last few years have also witnessed an increasing trend of Sri Lankan investments into India. Significant examples include Ceylon Biscuits (Munchee brand), Carsons Cumberbatch (Carlsberg), Brandix (about US$ 1 billion to set up a garment city in Vishakapatnam), MAS holdings, John Keels, Hayleys, and Aitken Spence (Hotels), apart from other investments in the freight servicing and logistics sector.Developmental CooperationThe conclusion of the armed conflict saw the emergence of a major humanitarian challenge, with nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians housed in camps for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The Government of India put in place a robust programme of assistance to help the IDPs return to normal life as quickly as possible as also consistently advocated the need for them to be resettled to their original habitations as early as possible.India’s immediate humanitarian assistance to IDPs included supply of 250,000 family relief packs, establishment of an emergency medical unit which treated over 50,000 IDPs, supply of over one million roofing sheets, as well as 400,000 bags of cement for constructing temporary housing and provision of 95,000 starter packs of agricultural implements. India also assisted in revival of agricultural and economic activities in areas affected by the conflict.
With the shift from relief and rehabilitation to reconstruction and development, the Government of India turned its attention to the housing requirements of the IDPs. During the visit of President Mahinda Rajapaksa to India in June 2010, an announcement was made by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh that India would support a programme to reconstruct 50,000 houses in Sri Lanka.
A Pilot Project involving construction of 1,000 houses was launched in November 2010 and was completed in July 2012. An MOU with the Government of Sri Lanka on the modalities of implementation of the remaining 49,000 houses under the Project was signed on 17 January 2012 and second phase of the project (construction and repair of 43,000 Housing Units in Northern and Eastern Provinces) was launched in October
2012. The Housing Project is under full grant assistance of the GOI with a total outlay of INR 1,372 crore (approx. US $ 270 million or SLR 30.6 billion) making it one of the largest grant assistance projects implemented by the Government outside India.
10184 houses were completed in the Northern Province during 2013, out of which 1832 were in Jaffna district, 3090 houses in Kilinochchi district, 3540 in Mullaitivu district, 1074 in Mannar district, and 648 in Vavuniya district. In the Eastern Province, 66 houses were completed in Batticaloa district.
Sri Lanka is one of the major recipients of development credit given by the Government of India. Under a line of credit of $167.4 million, the tsunami-damaged Colombo-Matara rail link has been repaired and upgraded. Another line of credit of $800 million for track laying and supply of rolling stock to support construction of Medawachchiya to Madhu, Madhu to Talaimannar, Omanthai to Pallai, Pallai to Kankesanthurai railway lines and setting up of signaling and telecommunications systems in Northern Sri Lanka is already operational. On March 4, 2014 the reconstructed railway track between Kilinochchi and Pallai was inaugurated.
India is also involved in projects for renovation of Palaly Airport, Kankesanthurai Harbour, construction of Cultural Centre in Jaffna, interconnection of electricity grids between the two countries, construction of a 150-bed hospital in Dickoya and setting up a coal power plant in Sampur as a joint venture between National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) and Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB).
India also continues to assist a large number of smaller development projects in areas like education, health, transport connectivity, small and medium enterprise development and training in many parts of the country through its grant fund
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