Minister discusses economic challenges with ADB team

Senior Minister for International Monetary Cooperation Dr. Sarath Amunugama met the Asian Development Bank (ADB) officials visiting Sri Lanka at his office in the Ministry of Finance and Planning to discuss current economic challenges and the progress of the North-East development activities.

The ADB team comprises Maurin Sitorus, BGV Team Leader, Executive Director for Armenia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Indonesia, Kyrgyz Republic, New Zealand, Samoa and Tonga;Ashok Lahiri, BGV Member, Executive Director for Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Laos, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan;Kazuhiko Koguchi, BGV Member, Executive Director for Japan;Jerome Joseph Louis Destombes, BGV Member, Executive Director for Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland;Richard John Anthony Karol Edwards, BGV Member, Alternate Executive Director for Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Turkey and the United Kingdom;Khin Khin Lwin, BGV Member, Alternate Executive Director for Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore and Thailand and Wilson Kamit, Host Director for Sri Lanka, Alternate Executive Director for Korea, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Taipei, China, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu and Vietnam.