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SL’s defence cost only US 5.5bln dollars
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The defence cost from 2006 to 2009 was only US 5.5 billion dollars, Central Bank Governor, Ajith Nivard Cabraal said a short while ago at the three-day seminar conducted by the Army.
He said that it was only 14 percent of the training cost of the US in Iraq and Afghanistan which was US 39 billion dollars. He also added that the country had to wage a constant battle against terrorist financing during the war.
“There were attempts to indirectly pressurize Sri Lanka and to keep the economy in a state of uncertainty. A large effort had to be made to depict the country’s economy in a positive light,” Cabraal said. (Supun Dias)
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