New Delhi: The India-Sri Lanka free trade agreement (FTA), signed way back in 1998, “needs to be upgraded”, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya said on Friday.

In her address at NDTV World Summit here, she also said that as the island nation rebuilds, its partnership with India has “evolved into a forward-looking, multi-faceted collaboration in every conceivable area”.

Amarasuriya is on a three-day visit to India from October 16-18, her first official tour to the country after assuming office as the prime minister.

On Thursday, she visited Hindu College here, where she received a red-carpet welcome, as the college described her return to the campus as a “remarkable homecoming” of a “distinguished alumna”.

While addressing the summit, she recalled her arrival in Delhi in the e

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