BEIJING, Muharram 05, 1437, October 18, 2015, SPA -- Sri Lanka would consider allowing Chinese naval ships to visit again but no request has been forthcoming yet, the country's defence minister said on Sunday. Sri Lankan Defence Minister Karunasena Hettiarachchi, who only took up his post last month, told Reuters in Beijing that he would give serious thought to new requests from China for naval ships to call, even if there are no plans currently. "It has not come to my table yet. If it comes I'll give it due consideration. If it comes in the right track we'll consider it seriously," he said on the sidelines of a military forum. "If it is really interesting and worthwhile, sometimes we do combined operations and exercises with military vessels from around the world, no discrimination." --SPA 13:45 LOCAL TIME 10:45 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w