Evolution of India Sri Lanka Relations: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 4 February 2022

📝Evolution of India Sri Lanka Relations

✓ The relationship between India and Sri Lanka is more than 2,500 years old and both sides have built upon a legacy of intellectual, cultural, religious and linguistic interaction.

✓ India and Sri Lanka commemorated the 2600th year of the attainment of enlightenment by Lord Buddha (Sambuddhatva Jayanthi) through joint activities. These included the exposition of Sacred Kapilavastu Relics in Sri Lanka that took place in August – September 2012.

✓ A Maritime agreement was signed by India and Sri Lanka in 1974. Where in India handed over the uninhabited Kacchateevu.

✓ Signed in 1999, the India-Sri Lanka FTA entered into force in 2000 .

✓ 2009, 2012 and 2013 India votes in favour of resolutions asking for probe in Sri Lanka’s war against the LTTE at the Human Rights Council.

✓ Change of governments in India in 2014 and Sri Lanka in 2015 provided an opportunity for fresh engagement. ✓ A Civil Nuclear Agreement was signed between the two countries in 2015.