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Sri Lanka says military budget in disarray
Yahoo India,
19 February 2002.
Sri Lanka's military budget for
the current year was in disarray because the government
did not know how much money was spent on some
major items in the past year, Defence Minister Tilak
Marapane said on Monday.
Marapane said he expected actual spending for 2002 to
be less than the estimated 60 billion rupees ($645
million) spent on defence last year, but added the total
could be the same or more if the cost of unpaid items
was added in. "But some of the purchases that have been made during
the last one year and one-and-a-half years (are) very difficult to identify," Marapane told a news conference.
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Published: Mon Feb 18 17:39:23 EST 2002
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