evidence: 50 Ranil Wickremesinghe, "Global Power Transition and the Indian Ocean," inaugural address, Indian Ocean Conference, September 1, 2016, 6, http://www.pmoffice.gov.lk/download/press/D00000000050_EN.pdf?p=7. [...] 78 Ranil Wickremesinghe, "Address by H.E. Ranil Shriyan Wickremesinghe, Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka," World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) Foundation, August 2, 2016, https://wief.org/speech/address-h-e-ranil-shriyan-wickremesinghe-prime-minister-democratic-socialist-republic-sri-lanka/. Indian scholar V. Suryanarayan has called for Singapore and the Maldives to join the organization. V. Suryanarayan, "Prospects for a Bay of Bengal Community," Seminar Magazine no. 487, March 2000, http://www.india-seminar.com/2000/487/487%20suryanarayan.htm.