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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Sri Lanka business leaders demand end to political impasse

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Sri Lankan business leaders on Friday called for an end to the country's political instability amid public demands for the president to resign over alleged economic mismanagement, warning that failure to do so would lead to economic catastrophe.

Leaders from 23 business associations representing export, import and logistics firms told reporters in the capital, Colombo, that they want lawmakers to “act responsibly and resolutely to implement remedial solutions to halt and then reverse the rapidly deteriorating situation.”

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