MR wants world leaders to see SL’s reality
20 July 2014 05:01 pm
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President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday said he wishes to see more foreign leaders visiting his country to experience the island's post conflict progress.
Rajapaksa commented on the progress of the country while receiving the Prime Minister of Portugal, Pedro Passos Coelho. The Portuguese leader arrived here on a two-day visit.
The president also explained the successful military campaign which ended the three-decade-long separatist movement by the LTTE.
"It would take time to heal the wounds of war because a lot of young people died from the south and the north," Rajapaksa said, adding the visits by foreign leaders were important.
He said the war devastated north had recorded over 20 per cent growth highlighting the government's development work in rebuilding the infrastructure.
The LTTE was defeated in a military campaign in 2009, ending a nearly three decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka.