Colombo: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe still maintains that his country's navy has the right to shoot anyone who intrudes into its territorial waters, remarks that have come close on the heels of what he calls a "successful" visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

"Sri Lanka Navy has the right to shoot in any part of the country at anyone who enters the bodies (waters), it's nothing new," he told a leading Indian news channel.