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India has raised concern over fishermen with lanka: Swaraj

India has strongly raised with Sri Lanka the concerns over the plight of Tamil fishermen and an interim arrangement is being put in place between fishermen of the two countries to resolve the issue, government told Rajya Sabha on Monday. Making a statement, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said the issue of fishermen should not be dealt with on technical grounds but on humanitarian grounds. "Till we move towards deep sea fishing, the issue should not be dealt with on technical grounds but humanitarian grounds. An interim arrangement is being put in place between fishermen of both the countries to resolve issue," she said.

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