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Sri Lanka has recently proposed to set up a group of Eminent Persons with a view to helping galvanize greater political will and to create further international awareness among states on the importance of combating terrorist financing, at the recently concluded 3rd No Money For Terror (NMFT) Ministerial Conference in New Delhi.

Sri Lanka will get 74.87 million US dollars from Rome-based World Food Program as part of efforts to eliminate hunger by 2023, the President’s media office said.

Sri Lanka and Russia have discussed ways and means to build nuclear energy cooperation between the two countries.

Amid a looming current fiscal crisis linked to cost of living crunch in the country’s vulnerable people wonder how much longer they can cope, as the Government battles the nation’s worst economic down turn since independence in 1948.

France, which is part of the Paris Club, is in talks with Sri Lanka’s creditors in an attempt to ensure a solution is reached for the financial crisis sooner than later in the wake of the third round of debt restructuring discussions with creditors.