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At BMICH : Anura recalls economic accomplishment by Elmo Leonard The People's Alliance (PA) would next month announce a new economic policy for government, which would redeem the economy of Sri Lanka, Anura Bandaranaike said yesterday. The PA had completed 90 per cent of the paper work for the policy which would ensure better industrial growth with emphasis on the resurgence of small industry, Bandaranaike said at the opening of the Travel Mart and International Industrial Fair 2003, at the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Memorial Exhibition Centre (SBMEC). Anura Bandaranaike, representing President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga at the opening of SBMEC, described Sirimavo Bandaranaike as a great leader of the people of Sri Lanka, and a great friend of Chinese leaders as Mao Tse Tung and Chou En Lai. She was also a genuine friend of the populace of the People's Republic of China and it was in that context that the Chinese leadership had decided to build two international exhibition and conference centres, in memory of his (Anura's) father SWRD Bandaranaike and his mother Sirimavo, he said. Earlier speakers said that with the implementation of the peace process the country was nearing an economic take-off. Bandaranaike said that the new exhibition centre had been booked for 20 exhibitions running up to end-2003. "Let the economy take off from here," Bandaranaike quipped. Chinese ambassador in Sri Lanka, Sun Guoxiang handed over the keys of the building to Anura Bandaranaike. The envoy said that the new exhibition centre was another symbol of friendship between the people of China and Sri Lanka. Bandaranaike recalled the economic performance of the PA government from 1994 to 2000, which he said doubled GDP, and raised the GNP from $600 to $950, while improving the percentage of unemployment to 7.5 percent, from the 14 percent, it stood at. A stamp, depicting the new Sirimavo Bandaranaike Memorial hall was inaugurated yesterday, simultaneously in Colombo and Beijing, being the first time when two nations launched the "same" stamp. |
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