Sri Lanka's newly elected President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa will visit India on the 29th of this month to meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

This will be Rajapaksa's first foreign visit after assuming duties as the President of Sri Lanka.

The President met the Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar who arrived in Colombo for a short visit today.

He was the first high-profile foreign delegate to meet the newly-elected Sri Lankan President.