President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa appealed to world aid organizations to grant concessions to third world countries at risk such as Sri Lanka with an economy that is dependent on the tourism industry, exports, income from migrant workers, loans and foreign investment in the stock market.
The President held a telephone conversation with the World Health Organisation Director General and urged him to get the International Monetary Fund Managing Director, World Bank President, Asian Development Bank Chairman and leaders of leading countries which provides bilateral loans to allow the loans payable to be suspend or to re-align these loans.
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