Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr, who is here on a three-day visit, said he would discuss the idea during talks with Lankan leaders on how to deal with people-smuggling and halt illegal immigration.
His remark came ahead of a meeting of Joint Working Group on People Smuggling and Transnational Crime chaired by Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa scheduled for later today.
Carr said the four-point plan would entail information and intelligence sharing under which Australia would provide additional surveillance and electronic equipment to expand Sri Lanka's capacity to target smuggling operations and better identify vessel departure times and locations.
He said that 65 cases of illegal migration involving 2,900 people were disrupted this year and mentioned the involuntary return of more than 700 Sri Lankan people-smuggling clients since August 2012.
"There is a message from these talks to people in Sri Lanka
