Navy has right to shoot anyone who intrudes: Lanka PM

March 16, 2015 15:28

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe has again said that his country's navy has the right to shoot anyone who intrudes into its territorial waters, notwithstanding India's forthright disapproval.

"The Lankan navy has the right to shoot in any part of the country if anyone enters territorial waters, this is nothing new," he said, two days after his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi's trip to the island nation.

Ahead of Prime Minister Modi's visit, Wickremasinghe had told a Tamil news channel, "If someone tries to break into my house, I can shoot. If he gets killed... Law allows me to do that," drawing India's ire.

Wickremasinghe said Modi's trip to the country was a "successful visit". The two nations are trying to resolve the fishermen issue, he said.

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