The Maldivian Vice President Faisal Naseem met President Ranil Wickremesinghe today at the Presidential Secretariat said.
According to the , Presidential Media Division (PMD) considering the longstanding friendship between Maldives and Sri Lanka, President Wickremesinghe requested the Maldives to invest in Sri Lanka’s high-tech agriculture sector, cruise tourism and high-end tourism sectors.
The President also requested the Maldives to join hands with Sri Lanka in establishing the climate change university.
The two leaders also discussed the growing drug menace affecting this region and President Ranil Wickremesinghe sought the assistance of the Maldivian government in combatting the drug scourge.
President Wickremesinghe also told the Maldivian Vice President that he intends to invite his Maldivian counterpart to Sri Lanka once his residence, which came under arson attack during the July protests, is renovated.
