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07 Apr, 2009 12:45:42
Sri Lanka to lose aid from Netherlands: report
April 07, 2009 (LBO) - The Netherlands will stop giving aid to Sri Lanka due to an internal conflict, ending a longstanding partnership which had given 30 to 40 million Euros each year to the island, a media report said.
A web report of the British Broadcasting Corporation's Sinhala Service said the Netherlands government had informed the country's parliament that it had terminated aid to a number of countries along with Sri Lanka.

The report said aid to Sri Lanka and the African nation of Eritrea will be ended due to "the political situation:.

"We think it is very difficult to work in Sri Lanka because of the violence. So, we will end our partner-country relationship with Sri Lanka," the BBC quoted Dutch development minister Bert Koenders as saying.

Dutch aid to Albania, Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cape Verde and Macedonia would also end.

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5. Roms Apr 07
Why help a country that is hell bent on genocide. Wait and see step by step the tamils will be wiped out by the Govt of SL
4. Rasike Apr 07
They will say any lame excuse to hide the fact that they don't have much money left even for themselves bcos of their now rescission hit economies.
3. Jack Apr 07
Why Netherland is worried about internal conflicts in Sri lanka? Halt aid & nourish the terrorism.Very soon Netherland will face the results of hugging terrorist who massacred thousands of innocent tamil civilians..
2. wasa Apr 07
When they do not have funds for aid and when the budgets are cut down, they have to find reasons to justify. this is back to basics. Protect yourself before others.

learning point of the importance of "self sustainability" mostly improvised by the great king "Maha Parakumba"

1. thakk Apr 07
"Cat Is Out Of the bag" what to do when there is no more LTTEers left in the country to be fed??? thank you. try and look some where else.