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Leading News from Sri Lanka::* President calls on political leaders to take difficult and unpopular decisions to benefit the countryFri, Feb 10, 2023, 09:48 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Feb 10, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe requested the country’s political leaders to dedicate themselves to building the country and take decisions that benefit the country. President Wickremesinghe said popular decisions would not serve to develop a country and he hopes political leaders would take difficult and unpopular decisions in the future, for the benefit of the country. I hope that this step will be a good start for the arrival of other investors to Sri Lanka based on the cooperation between South Korea and Sri Lanka as well as the higher investment made by Korea here. She resigned as Prime Minister, and a new Prime Minister has been appointed in her place.
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