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Sri Lanka pledges US$ 100,000 to
Pakistan
[October 11, 2005 - 5.00 GMT]
The Government of Sri
Lanka has pledged a sum of US$ 100,000
in assistance for the earthquake victims of
Pakistan. The donation would assist the
ongoing relief efforts in the aftermath of the October 8th
quake. President Chandrika Kumaratunga in her condolence
message to
President General Pervez Musharaff expressed her shock and deep distress
at the unprecedented loss of life and destruction
Pakistan
has had to suffer. President Kumaratunga went on to say that the people
and the Government of Sri Lanka
express their solidarity with Pakistan
at this time of national grief.
The President also wrote to the President A.P.J. Abdul
Kalam of India expressing her sympathies and recalled with deep
gratitude the immediate and overwhelmingly abundant assistance rendered
to Sri Lanka after the tsunami disaster in December last year.
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