Had India not helped bloodbath would have occurred again

Sri Lanka’s Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena on Friday thanked India for the financial assistance

New Delhi – No other nations helped Sri Lanka as India did. India saved us during the economic crisis; or else we would have witnessed one more bloodbath, stated Sri Lanka’s Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena. He thanked India for its timely monetary help. He said that last year Sri Lanka was facing a severe financial crisis. As the country struggled, locked in the throes of the crisis, India extended multi-pronged assistance of about USD 4 billion (Around 33 thousand crores and forty-six rupees) to it last year, through multiple credit lines and currency support, in line with India’s ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy.

“I must tell you, during the trouble that we had last year, you (India) saved us, India saved us otherwise, there would have been another bloodbath for all of us. So, that is how India came to help us,” Abeywardena said.https://t.co/LrqpSjeRvA

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Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said in the presence of Gopal Baglay, Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and other officers, India’s Ambassador was their trustworthy friend, they loved and respected him.