Sri Lanka plans donor conference with China, India and Japan
Jago News Desk Published: 22 June 2022, 01:58 PM
| Updated: 22 June 2022, 02:05 PM
A person waves a Sri Lankan flag as demonstrators shout slogans demanding the immediate release from police custody of the demonstrators who were obstructing an entrance to Sri Lanka's Presidential Secretariat, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 20, 2022. Photo: Reuters.
Sri Lanka will call China, India and Japan to a donor conference to drum up more foreign assistance to find a way out of its worsening economic crisis, the prime minister said on Wednesday, amid ongoing talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The island nation of 22 million people is struggling with its worst financial crisis in seven decades, unable to import essentials including food, fuel and medicines because of a severe shortage of foreign exchange.
Source: Reuters
