Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today met Singapore’s Law Minister Kasiviswanathan Shanmugam.

Singapore Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan and non-resident High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Chandra Das were also present at the meeting.

Wickremesinghe is currently in Singapore on a three-day visit and is expected to return to the country tomorrow.

There was strong speculation that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesibghe would visit former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa who is currently recovering at a hospital in Singapore after a surgery.

The Prime Minister's Office is yet to make an official statement on this matter.

President Maithripala Sirisena too is currently overseas attending a conference in Tajikistan.