China places Sri Lanka on top of its neighbourhood diplomacy: Xi tells Dissanayake

Sri Lanka on top of its neighbourhood diplomacy and supports it in safeguarding its sovereignty, President Xi Jinping told his Sri Lankan counterpart Anura Kumara Dissanayake during their meeting here on Wednesday.
After their meeting, the two countries signed several agreements to boost bilateral ties, an official statement here said.
Xi expressed China's readiness to usher in a new era of development in bilateral ties and called on the two countries to have a “keen grasp” of their relations from a “strategic perspective” and jointly build a China-Sri Lanka community with a shared future, it said.