US President Joe Biden says he seems to be ahead to strengthening and deepening the cordial bilateral relations with Sri Lanka even additional.
He made this comment in a warmly worded letter of felicitation, which conveyed his finest should his Sri Lankan counterpart Ranil Wickremesinghe and the parents of Sri Lanka on the event of the seventy fifth Anniversary of Sri Lankan Independence.
The US President furthermore talked about that he hopes to proceed to advance the shared values and imaginative and prescient for a peaceable, affluent and guarded future for the parents of the 2 worldwide areas.
He acknowledged that this milestone independence anniversary coincides with the 75 years of diplomatic relations between the US and Sri Lanka.
President Biden acknowledged that this longstanding partnership has helped to advance peace and prosperity all by means of the world and globally.
He recalled that each nations – all through their shared historic earlier – “have tackled formidable worldwide challenges, together with the combatting of native local weather change, addressing the scourge of human trafficking and sustaining a protected, free and open Indo-Pacific”.
President Biden acknowledged that bilateral commerce and financial ties have been strengthened and deepened, and that Sri Lanka and the U.S., as democracies, have regularly been stronger when standing collectively, whereas being united in a shared dedication to freedom, completely different and equality.
The communication from President Biden was handed over to President Wickremesinghe by the US Beneath-Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland when she often called on President Wickremesinghe on Wednesday (Feb. 01) on the Presidential Secretariat.
Inside the meantime, US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung furthermore prolonged desires for the seventy fifth Independence anniversary. “Could this yr be the beginning of 1 completely different 75 years of individuals, progress and partnership between our two nations,” she talked about in a tweet.
