COLOMBO: Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Colombo, Maj. Gen. (Retd) Umar Farooq Burki is hopeful that Sri Lanka will soon recover from the current economic crisis.
The envoy made this statement when he met President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday afternoon on.June 17
The high commissioner who called on the president has assured that his government will extend its fullest support to the Sri Lankan government in overcoming the current economic crisis.
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.
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