"Current World Order Is WWII Winners' Club, Needs Reform": Lankan Minister

Sri Lanka's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Tharaka Balasuriya, said both India and his country want to increase connectivity between the two nations.

Sri Lanka wants to capitalise on India's growth and it has given an assurance that it will not allow any country, including China, to use it in a way that harms New Delhi's security concerns, the island nation's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Tharaka Balasuriya, has said.

In a wide-ranging conversation on NDTV Dialogues, Mr Balasuriya stressed on the alignment between Sri Lanka and India in terms of increasing connectivity between the two countries and also said that there is a need for changing the current financial and political architecture of the world, which he called a "Second World War winners' club".

To a question on India's concerns about China, including the docking of Chinese spy ships in Sri Lanka, the minister, who was in New Delhi for the BIMSTEC Foreign Ministers' Retreat, insisted that the vessels were at the ports only for replenishment and not for any kind of surveys.