SRI LANKA INDIAVisiting Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal Pradeep Vasant ( L ) and his Sri Lankan counterpart Air Chief Marshal Roshan Gunatilleke exchange gifts at the Sri Lanka Air Force headquarters in Colombo 17 December 2011 . Air Chief Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik is on a four day official tour of the island nation and his first after the defeat of the separatists in May 2009 . He paid a floral tribute at the memorial to the over 1 , 000 soldiers of the Indian Peace Keeping Force ( IPKF ) who died during their tenure in Sri Lanka from 1987 untill it was withdrawn in 1994 . EPA / STRINGER < 뉴스 의 새 시대 , 연합뉴스 Live > < 모바일 애플리케이션 > < 포토 매거진 >< 저작권자 ( c ) 연합뉴스 . 무단 전재 - 재배 포금 지 . >