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Sri Lanka says it secures $1.34 bn World Bank loan
10 years agoPresident of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon (C) shakes hands with Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena (2R) during a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo on December 13, 2016. Rahmon is on a three day official vist to Sri Lanka. LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI / AFP
"This is a great victory for us and it will help us in the fiscal consolidation programme that the new government has started," Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake said.