New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will meet on Thursday on the sidelines of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit in New Delhi.
Ahead of the meeting, Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama denied any pressure from New Delhi on a deadline to end the war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
"We look at and that's what I say appraisal of the situation. We will always make very little space for further pressure to develop because there is no need for pressure. When we are sharing the way we believe the things should happen and that is what I say that we have a common agenda in serving the needs of our people in Sri Lanka and we respect the concerns of Delhi as much as Tamil Nadu sometimes when it gets expressed," Bogollagama said.
On the question of handing over LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran to India if he's captured alive, said that President Rajapakse has made a commitment to India on that issue.
"There is death sentence on the Prabhakran in India on the killing of prime minister Rajiv Gandhi so the judicial process has taken its course. We are a democracy, we are a civilised country. We respect the rule of law and our president has said he'll have to move to India that how India will always have to initiate the request," he said.
India is hosting the second BIMSTEC summit from November 11-13, 2008 at New Delhi.
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