The Foreign Ministry yesterday refutesed a news item that said Sri Lanka purchased weapons from North Korea using Black Market Dollars.
The Ministry in a release said that Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa had categorically denied the comments attributed to him in the said news item telecast in a TV channel.
"The Foreign Ministry wishes to state that Foreign Minister Prof.G.L.Peiris has spoken in this regard with his Cabinet colleague, Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa who has categorically denied the comments attributed to him in the said news item," a Foreign Ministry statement said.
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