Solution to Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict has to be found through dialogue and not through violence, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said.
Expressing concerns over the deteriorating security situation in Sri Lanka, Mukherjee said India's position has always been that the solution has to be found 'through dialogue, discussion and negotiations.'
"Nothing can be achieved through violence," he told the Sri Lankan leadership during his one-day visit to the island nation on Tuesday to invite President Mahinda Rajapakse to the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation summit to be held in April in New Delhi.
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to diplomatic sources, the Indian foreign minister held bilateral discussions, including economic cooperation and the island's faltering peace bid, with President Mahinda Rajapakse, his Sri Lankan counterpart Mangala Samaraweera and Science and Technology Minister Tissa Vitharana at Temple Trees official residence of the President.