President Sidesteps Cyclone Failures and Policy U-Turns in Newsweek Interview
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake says his government must convince the country — and the world — that Sri Lanka still has “a sustainable future” as it rebuilds from Cyclone Ditwah while emerging from a historic debt crisis and managing intensifying geopolitical competition in the Indian Ocean. In a rare and wide-ranging interview with Newsweek at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, Dissanayake described Ditwah as “catastrophic,” hitting just as Sri Lanka concluded a US$25 bill
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