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Pakistan assures Lanka support to overcome crisis

19 June, 2022
Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Maj. Gen. (Retd) Umar Farooq Burki with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Maj. Gen. (Retd) Umar Farooq Burki with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa

Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Maj. Gen. (Retd) Umar Farooq Burki has assured that his government will extend its fullest support to the government in overcoming the current economic crisis.

High Commissioner Umar Farooq Burki said this when he met President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the President’s House in Colombo on Friday.

The High Commissioner said that the close and multilateral relations between the two countries as well as the political, trade, cultural, security and development cooperation will be further strengthened.

President Rajapaksa thanked the Government of Pakistan for awarding scholarships for higher education to Sri Lankan students as well as sending the provision of selected medicinal drugs as humanitarian aid to Sri Lanka.

The President briefed the High Commissioner on Sri Lanka’s current economic crisis.

The High Commissioner further said that the Government of Pakistan would provide assistance to overcome the current situation, and he anticipates that Sri Lanka would return to normalcy soon.

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