Colombo, Sep 29 (PTI) Japan on Monday announced the decision to provide the Sri Lanka Navy with two Unmanned Aerial Vehicles during President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s ongoing official visit to Japan.

Sri Lanka and Japan have exchanged notes on Japan’s Official Security Assistance (OSA) programme in the presence of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, a release from the Japanese embassy here said. “Japan’s first OSA for Sri Lanka signifies that bilateral cooperation in security has entered a new phase," it said. Launched in 2023, OSA is a new grant aid cooperation framework of Japan to strengthen the security and deterrence capabilities of like-minded countries. “OSA enables armed forces to be a recipient, differently from ‘Official Development Assistance (ODA)’, which is for the e

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