We are there in your hour of need - World Bank President

By Shirajiv Sirimane

James D. Wolfensohn the President of the World Bank Group who was in Sri Lanka during the weekend to have a close look at the devastation caused by tsunami said that the question of whether to give debt relief to Sri Lanka which owes US $ 600 million to the by way of interest will be taken up at the Paris Club meeting scheduled to be on January 12.
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