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Senior Minister for International Monetary Cooperation Dr. Sarath Amunugama last week met the visiting team of Board of Directors from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and discussed the current economic challenges and progress of the North East development activities.
The visiting ADB team comprised Maurin Sitorus – BGV Team Leader, Executive Director for Armenia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Indonesia, Kyrgyz Republic, New Zealand, Samoa and Tonga Ashok Lahiri – BGV Member, Executive Director for Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan and Kazuhiko Koguchi – BGV Member, Executive Director for Japan.
Other members of the team included Jerome Joseph Louis Destombes – BGV Member, Executive Director for Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland, Richard John Anthony Karol Edwards – BGV Member, Alternate Executive Director for Austria, Germany, Luxembourg and Turkey, United Kingdom, Khin Khin Lwin – BGV Member, Alternate Executive Director for Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore and Thailand and Wilson Kamit – Host Director for Sri Lanka, Alternate Executive Director for Republic of Korea, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Taipei, China, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu and Vietnam. ADB Country Director in Sri Lanka Rita O’ Sullivan was also present.