The Hon. Wasantha Samarasinghe - Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Co-operative Development
The Minister stated that the Government would consider the proposal but preferred to build domestic institutional capacity through coordination among the Department of Commerce, the Ministry, the Treasury, and the Foreign Ministry rather than hiring paid foreign consultants. He noted that discussions with the United States, Sri Lanka’s largest single export market, had already been initiated for September, and said Parliament would be kept informed while welcoming cross-party support.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Thank you. We will consider your proposal. Rather than paid foreign consultants, we prefer to coordinate among the Department of Commerce, our Ministry, the Treasury, and the Foreign Ministry to build in-house capacity. We have already initiated discussions with the US for September. The US is our largest single export market; we will keep Parliament informed and welcome cross-party support.
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Cite as: The Hon. Wasantha Samarasinghe - Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Co-operative Development. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 19 March 2025. No. 1748499233099643. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/25201