Sri Lanka accepted the draft Memorandum of Understanding forwarded by Chinese government to initiate an Agreement between the Ministry of Culture and the Arts of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and the Chinese Academy of Sciences of the People's Republic of China concerning the Joint Project in the Search for wreckage of Zheng He's Fleets off the Coast of Sri Lanka subsequent to the incorporation of amendments proposed by the Attorney General. The Ministry of External Affairs has informed this Ministry to obtain the approval of the Cabinet for the draft Agreement.

(ST?KH)