Sri Lankan FM: Recent crisis presents opportunity
Sri Lankan foreign minister Ali Sabri addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday evening, saying that his nation’s recent political crisis presents an opportunity for reform.
Sri Lankan foreign minister Ali Sabri addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday evening, saying that his nation’s recent political crisis presents an opportunity for reform.
Sabri alluded to the dramatic political upheaval that has roiled the South Asian island country in describing the “significant changes” Sri Lanka has undergone since the last U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting.
He said the “external and internal challenges we face provide an opportunity for implementing political, social and economic reform that will lead to recovery and prosperity for our people.”
Sri Lanka’s new government is committed to fiscal discipline and economic and institutional reform, he said.
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Sabri was a member of former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s cabinet, serving as a justice and then finance minister. Rajapaksa fled the country in July amid a raging economic crisis and popular anger.
He was replaced by his prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe.
