Sri Lanka Cabinet has given green light to a proposal submitted by the Prime Minister to obtain a grant from the United States of America, nearly two years after President Gotanaya Rajapaksa rejected a $480 million from the U.S.-based Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).
Sri Lanka cabinet expansion: The new ministers belong to the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and its allies the SLFP and the EPDP, a Tamil minority party in the north.
Embattled Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Saturday appointed four members of the ruling party to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's Cabinet, including GL Peiris as the Foreign Minister
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa became the only member of the family to retain a Cabinet position in his younger brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa's new Cabinet of 17 ministers appointed on Monday, as the island nation was facing the worst economic crisis.