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Modi arrives Anuradhapur on way to Jaffna

by IBNS 13 Mar 2015, 09:43 pm

Anuradhapur, Sri Lanka, Mar 14(IBNS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a visit to Sri Lanka, on Saturday arrived in the historic north-central city of Anuradhapura on his way to Jaffna.

Modi is only the second foreign leader after British Prime Minister David Cameron to visit the region, torn by decades of ethnic fighting.

Modi's visit to Jaffna later in the day will make him the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Sri Lanka's Tamil heartland. On Friday, Modi called for greater economy for Sri Lanka's biggest minority community 

He will launch construction of a cultural centre and hand over houses to 50,000 families that lost their homes in the fighting.