NSA meets Jayalalithaa en route to Sri Lanka

CHENNAI: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday raised the issue of Lankan Navy attacks on Tamil Nadu fishermen and the resettlement of internally displaced Lankan Tamils with National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon who met her here on his way to Sri Lanka.Menon and Foreign Secret­ary Nirupama Rao leave for Colombo on Friday morning.The meeting between the CM and Menon lasted an hour at her Poes Garden resi­dence. Chief Secretary Debe­ndranath Sarangi was also present. Menon assured the CM that he would take up all the issues with Sri Lanka on Friday and get back to her before returning to New Delhi.