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Wednesday, May 10, 2006
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Foreign Relations Logistics - Airlines India, Lanka to discuss liberal aviation agreement Our Bureau
AVIATION TIES: The Minister for Civil Aviation, Mr Praful Patel, with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sri Lanka, Mr Mangala Samaraweera, in the Capital on Tuesday. — Ramesh Sharma
New Delhi , May 9 Indian and Sri Lankan officials are to meet in Colombo within the next few months to work out a more liberal air services agreement between the two countries. "I have had fruitful discussions with the Indian Minister for Civil Aviation on air services between India and Sri Lanka. "The issue of arriving at an open sky agreement also came up. Now the officials of the two countries will meet soon," said Mr Mangala Samaraweera, Sri Lankan Minister for External Affairs, Civil Aviation and Ports. Speaking to newspersons after the meeting, the Minister for Civil Aviation, Mr Praful Patel, said that the Sri Lankan Government was keen to make the existing air services agreement more liberal.
India receptive
"They have already utilised their entitlement under the existing agreement to the full. We will consider their proposal in a liberal manner." In 2003, a joint communiqué issued at the conclusion of a visit of the then Sri Lankan Prime Minister allowed the designated airlines of Sri Lanka to operate daily flights between Colombo and Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Kolkata. In addition, the airlines were given unlimited access to 18 other tourist destinations, including Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, Vishakhapatnam, and Tiruchi. However, SriLankan, which operates more than 70 weekly flights to India, is keen increase its operations here. SriLankan officials have indicated that the airline would be keen to increase the frequency of flights to the metro cities.
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