* Sri Lanka President hosts a banquet for visiting Bahrain PM
Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 10:31 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.

July 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa hosted a special dinner banquet in honour of the Prime Minister of Bahrain Shaik Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa yesterday evening at his personal residence in Colombo. Sri Lanka Prime Minister Rathnasiri Wickramanayaka and several other ministers and diplomats including the Arab Ambassador have joined the dinner banquet. The banquet was enriched with a folklore dance, the Presidential Media Unit said. According to the President's media the visiting PM of Bahrain has expressed his happiness over the dancing show which reflected Sri Lankan heritage and culture.

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