Rajapaksa to be chief guest at CWG closer
By IANSMonday, October 11, 2010
NEW DELHI - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will be the chief guest at the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games Oct 14, according to official sources.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will give a lunch in his honour and his wife Shiranthi at the Hyderabad House the next day. Rajapaksa will return to Colombo the same evening.
His visit will be preceded by that of Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G.L Peiris, who will come here Oct 13 and hold talks with his counterpart S.M. Krishna to prepare for the Indo-Sri Lankan Joint Commission meeting in Colombo later this month.
Peiris will also meet Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Defence Minister A.K. Antony.
Peiris will deliver the R.K. Mishra Memorial Lecture on “Growth, Equity and Security: Constitutional Imperatives for South Asia” at the Teen Murti House Oct 15.
