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by Jehan Perera

The pledging of USD 4.5 billion over the next four years to Sri Lanka at the Tokyo donor conference on June 9-10 came as an unexpected surprise. The absence of the LTTE from what had been promoted as a joint government-LTTE appeal to the international community had led to reasonable apprehensions that donor interest in the event would diminish. But the total pledged was 50 percent larger than the USD 3 billion that was anticipated as the target figure.
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