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Daily Financial Times
Daily Financial Times
The German frigate ‘BAYERN’ will arrive in Sri Lanka tomorrow and will be docked at Colombo Port till 18 January. The ship, with around 200 sailors on board and on a patrol and training mission in the Indo-Pacific, is making a port call in Colombo as part of its six-month long deployment in the region. The frigate embarked on this journey in August 2021 and will return to Germany at the end of February 2022. The deployment of the BAYERN relates to the German Government’s ‘Policy Guidelines for the Indo-Pacific’ as well as to the European Union’s ‘Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific’. …