(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
India has provided 44,000 tonnes of urea to Sri Lanka for
meeting the domestic requirements in the current and next sowing
seasons, Union Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister Mansukh Mandaviya
said, Trend reports citing NDTV .
The minister tweeted that 44,000 tonnes of urea fertilizer
provided by India under the Line of Credit reached Colombo and
handed over to the Sri Lanka government.
'It will help to meet farming requirements in current & next
cropping seasons,' Mr Mandaviya said.
India has time and again proved to be a true friend of Sri
Lankan people in their need, the minister said.
As the economic crisis worsened, Sri Lanka witnessed massive
street protests in the past months and the public anger led almost
all the cabinet ministers to quit the government.
Thousands of angry protesters on Saturday stormed embattled
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's official residence and set Prime
Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's private house on fire, in the
culmination of months of agitation over the ongoing economic
crisis.
Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday said the
Indian government has always been supportive of Sri Lanka and it
was 'trying to help' the neighbouring country through its present
economic crisis and made it clear that there was 'no refugee crisis
right now'.
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The External Affairs Ministry said India stands with the Sri Lankan
people in their aspirations for prosperity and progress through
democratic means, established institutions and a constitutional
framework.
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