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Sri Lanka gets Chinese funds to build international airport
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admin on 27 December, 2009 10:43:00
 
Sri Lanka's finance ministry secretary P B Jayasundera and China's vice minister
of commerce, Chen Jian had signed thee deals on December 23, for 'concessional'
funding for several projects, the foreign ministry said.
An unspecified portion of 410 million funding was for a new international
airport in Mattala.  Jayasundera had discussed the progress of power, ports and
highways financed by China in Sri Lanka and had said the government wanted to
speed up road and rail links to the North which has just emerged from a 30-year
war.