New Delhi: Sri Lankan Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe on March 1 held wide-ranging talks on bilateral co-operation with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and is understood to have briefed him on the peace process with Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

The talks were followed by a lunch hosted by Vajpayee for Wickremesinghe, who is on a private visit to Delhi, official sources said.

The Sri Lankan leader had said on February 28 night that the two countries were working on an agreement for economic co-operation that will broaden the range of goods traded freely between them.

PTI