COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka plans to dispute Britain's decision to suspend aid payments due to a worsening civil war, saying Friday its escalating military actions are justified.
"We will take it up on a government to government level," the government's defense spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said.
Britain, which had agreed to give US$5.9 million (4.3 million) to help Sri Lanka pay down its debts to the World Bank, suspended the program Thursday after making only half the payments, a spokesman for the British High Commission in Colombo said on condition of anonymity, following protocol.
The payments will resume if a series of conditions are met, including no unjustified increases in military spending and no instigations of hostility, the official said.More >>
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