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‘No ground’ for Indian request for return of Katchatheevu: Sri Lanka Minister

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A view of Katchatheevu in Sri Lanka. | Photo Credit: L. BALACHANDAR The statements coming out of India on “reclaiming” Katchatheevu island from Sri Lanka have “no ground”, the Sri Lankan Minister of Fisheries Douglas Devananda has said. The senior Sri Lankan Tamil politician’s comments came days after the Narendra Modi government targeted the Congress…

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No need for talks with India on ‘resolved’ Katchatheevu issue, says Lankan Foreign Minister 

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Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ali Sabry. | Photo Credit: AP Sri Lanka sees no reason for re-opening talks on Katchatheevu that India gave up 50 years ago, Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Ali Sabry has said, in the first official reaction yet to the recent remarks of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S….

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Sri Lanka Cabinet did not discuss Katchatheevu issue: spokesman

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A view of Katchatheevu in Sri Lanka. | Photo Credit: L. Balachandar Sri Lanka’s Cabinet has not discussed the Katchatheevu issue so far as it was never raised, a government spokesman said in Colombo on April 2, after India’s ruling BJP blamed the Congress for ceding the tiny island to Colombo in 1974. “The Cabinet…

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