Lanka, Pak to sign FTA by Jan
Colombo: Sri Lanka and Pakistan will enter into a long-awaited free trade agreement by January.

The pact will be signed during a visit to Islamabad by President Chandrika Kumaratunga.

Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, who is in Colombo said the FTA was almost ready to be signed.

He also expected all problems to be sorted out when a meeting takes place in Islamabad in two days to finalise the deal.

"Where there are problems, we will work around them," Aziz said. "We are hopeful we can make the FTA operational by the time President Kumaratunga visits Pakistan in January."

He said bilateral talks focused on greater economic and political cooperation between the two countries and there would be a review of joint cooperation later in December. (PTI)
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