President Rodrigo Duterte and Sri Lanka’s leader, President Maithripala Sirisena, witnessed the signing of five memoranda of understandings (MOU) between the two countries Wednesday, during the latter’s state visit.
Among those signed were the MOU between the Department of National Defense and Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Defence on defense and military education and training as well as exchanges of defense and military delegations.
Also signed were the MOU on cooperation in agriculture, fisheries and related fields; on academic cooperation in higher education between the Commission on Higher Education and the Ministry of City Planning, Water Supply, and Higher Education of Sri Lanka; between the Department of Tourism and the Ministry of Tourism Development, Wildlife and Christian Religious Affairs of Sri Lanka; and between the University of the Philippines Los Baños and the Sri Lanka Council for Agriculture Research Policy of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Economic Affairs, Livestock, Irrigation, Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development.
Presidents Rodrigo Duterte and Maithripala Sirisena. (Barakong Henry)
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