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Special meeting of donor countries
A special meeting of the donor countries is scheduled for May 17 in Brussels, Belgium to review granting aid to Sri Lanka. The meeting will be chaired by US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.

The meeting comes in the wake of the new government cancelling the UNF's 'Regaining Sri Lanka' programme which had been submitted to the donor countries to be studied prior to providing aid.

The cancellation of the programme is due to come up for discussion. The aid group is also to discuss the cease-fire agreement Mr. Ranil Wickremesinghe's government signed with the LTTE and its continuance under the new regime.

A team of representatives from the IMF is due to come here next week to prepare the necessary background for the scheduled Brussels meeting in May. They are scheduled to have several meetings in Colombo with officials of the new government.

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