French President Macron to arrive in SL this weekend

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Colombo (LNW): French President Emmanuel Macron is scheduled to visit Sri Lanka and meet President Ranil Wickremesinghe, a report by EconomyNext said.

The debt restructuring will be among the topics to be included during the discussion, according to the report.

Macron visit comes a month after Wickremesinghe went to Paris on the invitation of Macron and took part in the Global Leaders’ Summit for a New Global Financing Pact.

At the summit and during meetings with world leaders attending the summit held from June 22-25, Wickremesinghe explained Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring measures which are linked to the release of the second tranche of the IMF’s Extended Fund Facility in September.

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