Sri Lanka's new Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath said foreign-funded projects will be assigned through open, transparent tendering, while existing projects involving China and India will not be disrupted. In an interview with Ceylon Today he also said the NPP government would seek to review and change the IMF agreement, which he said imposed heavy taxes on fuel and power.
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There must be a proper process. It should be a genuine, transparent procurement procedure.
In Sri Lanka, this is a bad history. All those business transactions occurred through unsolicited proposals. We have all the evidence in regard to projects with China and India. The minister submits a proposal and the Cabinet approves with…
We clearly told the Indian Foreign Minister we don’t like such procedures and when we come to power, we will follow a strict procurement process and open tender procedures.
Those agreements are signed and we will not be able to change them. We can hold discussions, but it is difficult. We cannot scrap those agreements that have been signed already.
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When we met Indian Foreign Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar, we clearly told him, during our visit to India, that at that time we were anti-India; today we have changed because of the world’s political trend.
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