{"id":38236,"date":"2015-02-07T00:14:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T05:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=38236"},"modified":"2015-02-07T00:15:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T05:15:26","slug":"no-decision-yet-on-china-funded-port-city-projectprime-minister-contradicts-cabinet-spokesman-senaratne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=38236","title":{"rendered":"“No Decision yet on China Funded Port City Project”:Prime Minister Contradicts Cabinet Spokesman"},"content":{"rendered":"

By<\/p>\n

Meera Srinivasan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday clarified that no decision had been taken yet on proceeding with the China-funded port city project coming up in Colombo.<\/p>\n

He was responding to a question from Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the Leftist-nationalist Janath\u0101 Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). Mr. Dissanayake raised the issue in Parliament, citing Cabinet spokesperson and Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne\u2019s Thursday announcement that the government had decided to go ahead with the project.<\/p>\n

Contradicting his Cabinet Minister\u2019s remarks, Mr. Wickremesinghe said a separate committee and a Cabinet sub-committee that he heads would look into the details of the project, including its impact on the environment.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI got down all the files relating to this project soon after this government came to power. On inspecting them, I found that all the required reports are not there,\u201d he said. His clarification comes a day after Mr. Senaratne told media persons that a credible environment impact assessment report from Sri Lanka\u2019s Moratuwa University had cleared the reclamation component of the project. The government would go ahead with the project, the Minister had said.<\/p>\n

The China-funded port city, a $1.34-billion project coming up near Colombo\u2019s Galle Face beach, has been in news ever since it was inaugurated in September by Chinese President Xi Jinping who visited Sri Lanka. Just ahead of Sri Lanka\u2019s presidential polls in January, Mr. Wickremesinghe \u2013 who was then the Opposition Leader \u2013 said the project would be scrapped should his joint coalition come to power, due to serious threats to the environment. Going by Mr. Wickremesinghe’s emphatic comments pre-election, the Cabinet’s nod for the project \u2014 announced on Thursday by Mr. Senaratne \u2014 seemed a virtual U-turn in its position.
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\nCourtesy:The Hindu<\/em><\/p>\n

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By Meera Srinivasan Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday clarified that no decision had been taken yet on proceeding with the China-funded port city project coming up in Colombo. He was responding to a question from Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the Leftist-nationalist Janath\u0101 Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). Mr. Dissanayake raised the issue in …<\/p>\n

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