The National People’s Power (NPP) Presidential Candidate, Anura Kumara Dissanayake said that his party does not intend to unilaterally withdraw from Sri Lanka’s program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Dissanayake made these remarks while addressing an NPP business forum in Colombo on Tuesday.
“Sri Lanka’s foreign relations and transactions are all inside the IMF basket. The entire future program is tied with the IMF. Therefore, if someone unilaterally decides to withdraw from this program, it is also a withdrawal from responsibility to the citizens and the country,” Dissanayake said.
However, he emphasized that while certain parameters prescribed by the IMF for Sri Lanka are not necessarily unfavourable, the issue lies in how to achieve these targets.
“There can be many proposals on how to meet these goals. All our discussions and amendments will remain within the framework of both their targets and ours,” he said. (Newswire)