SL mulls building naval craft: Ruwan

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Sri Lanka is looking at the possibility of building naval craft in collaboration with Japan, said State Minister for Defence Ruwan Wijewardene yesterday.

Speaking during the committee stage debate on the budget in Parliament, he said this was one of the steps the government intended taking in order to upgrade the Sri Lankan armed forces.

“Sri Lanka will acquire one offshore naval craft from India next year and another will be acquired by the year 2019,” he said.

He added that the Air Force would acquire multi combatant jets.

The State Minister said the intention of the government was to strengthen the armed forces while trying to being about reconciliation between the communities. “The government will always give top priority to national security,” he said.

He said this was the reason why a sum of Rs.231 billion was allocated for defence though there was no war on. “President Maithripala Sirisena has always instructed us to give top priority to the country’s security,” he said. (Yohan Perera)

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JAN peiris Thursday, 08 December 2016 08:24 AM

very good idea Sir do you have any fairly Knowledge about Vessel building via DM Android App

BuffaloaCitizen Thursday, 08 December 2016 09:07 AM

If correct decisions and solutions are found, the 231 billion you are spending for the armed forces can be used for development and for public necessities. Unfortunately, since independence no Sinhalese leader made bold decisions that provided permanent and acceptable solutions to the countries problems but always played to a gallery of extremists. The past insurrections from JVP to LTTE are all the fault of incompetent politicians failing their duties.

Lakshman De Silva Thursday, 08 December 2016 12:58 PM

Why Japan, Colombo Dockyards can very well build fine craft......

Henry Thursday, 08 December 2016 05:07 PM

Public transport system is in a mess, why can't the government look into it and improve both railway and bus transport rather than buying defense equipment when there is no war now?

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