Indian Ocean Conference 2016, organized by the India Foundation will be held on 1st and 2nd September at the Shangri La Hotel, Singapore.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will leave for Singapore in the early hours of September 1 to take part in it and scheduled to make inaugural address of the conference.
Wickremesinghe will be accompanied by his wife Prof. Maitree Wickremesinghe, Secretary to the PM Saman Ekanayake, Additional Secretary to the PM Saman Athaudahetti and Special Assistant to the PM Sandra Perera in this trip.
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