Srilanka, April 6 -- "I am grateful to President Anura Kumara Dissanayake for his sensitivity towards India's interests. We welcome the important agreements made in the area of Defence Cooperation. We have also agreed to work together on the Colombo Security Conclave and Security Cooperation in the Indian Ocean," Premier Modi told a welcome ceremony at the Presidential Secretariat during which seven MoUs were signed.

Seven Memorandums of Understanding(MoUs) were signed yesterday between Sri Lanka and India at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, in the presence of visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Dissanayake.

These included an MoU for the implementation of High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Interconnection ...