Sri Lanka\u2019s Speaker Jagath Wickramaratne recently held discussions in Parliament with a delegation from the France\u2013Sri Lanka Parliamentary Friendship Group of the French Senate.<\/p>\n
The meeting focused on further strengthening long-standing bilateral relations between Sri Lanka and France, built on decades of mutual cooperation and shared values.<\/p>\n
The French delegation included Friendship Group Chair Vanina Paoli-Gagin, Vice Chair Didier Marie, and Senator Laurence Muller-Bronn, along with other officials.<\/p>\n
Welcoming the delegation, the Speaker highlighted the importance of parliamentary diplomacy in enhancing mutual understanding and cooperation. He also expressed appreciation for France\u2019s support to Sri Lanka following the Tidwa<\/em> cyclone.<\/p>\n Discussions also covered economic cooperation, with France continuing to be a key tourism market for Sri Lanka. The Speaker emphasized improving air connectivity, including strengthening ties with Air France.<\/p>\n He further acknowledged continued support through the GSP+ scheme and expressed confidence in expanding trade and industrial growth through enhanced collaboration.<\/p>\n The talks also addressed cooperation in emerging areas such as maritime security and the development of the blue economy, highlighting growing strategic importance for both nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sri Lanka\u2019s Speaker Jagath Wickramaratne recently held discussions in Parliament with a delegation from the France\u2013Sri Lanka Parliamentary Friendship Group of the French Senate. The meeting focused on further strengthening long-standing bilateral relations between Sri Lanka and France, built on decades of mutual cooperation and shared values. The French delegation included Friendship Group Chair Vanina …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}