Colombo: Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that no country except India is providing money to crisis-hit Sri Lanka for fuel and underlined that he has urged IMF to expedite its assistance programme to the island nation.
The conversation between Wickremesinghe, who is also the finance minister, and the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund comes as Sri Lanka has decided to seek the assistance of the Washington-based global lender to combat the worst economic crisis since its independence from Britain in 1948.
Sri Lanka has already initiated measures to restructure its foreign debts — a prerequisite for an IMF programme — after the government suspended all the external debt repayments on April 12.