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Sri Lanka to upgrade trade agreement with India - president

Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe India

FILE PHOTO: Sri Lanka's President Ranil Wickremesinghe looks on during an interview with Reuters at Presidential Secretariat, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka August 18, 2022. REUTERS/ Dinuka Liyanawatte/

Sri Lanka will turn a free trade agreement with India into a comprehensive economic and technological partnership, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Friday, according to a government statement.

The president said an international trade office will be established to deal with all international trade negotiations.

(Reporting by Uditha Jayasinghe, writing by Shivam Patel; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

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