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Talks with Lankan leaders fruitful: Menon

Source: PTI
November 24, 2006 10:41 IST
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Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon from Colombo on Friday, after holding 'fruitful' discussions with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse.

"I had fruitful talks with Sri Lankan leaders and would be briefing Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi about it," Menon told reporters at the airport.

Menon, who had a one-to-one meeting with Rajapakse at his Temple Trees residence, also met a cross-section of political leaders at a dinner at India House, the official residence of India's High Commissioner in Colombo.

He will be leaving on Friday night for New Delhi, where he would apprise Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the discussions he had in Sri Lanka.

The prime minister had deputed Menon to Colombo to discuss the current situation in the island nation amidst reports that Sri Lankan army and airforce were committing atrocities against ethnic Tamils.

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