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Gordon Fairclough (Reporter of Wall Street Journal): So under the new government, do you plan to relook at the country's ties with China?

— Ranil Wickremesinghe

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We are looking at how power sharing takes place within the Constitution.

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A priority for us is the creation of more jobs that will minimise poverty and provide for prosperity for all Sri Lankans. Towards this, we need to enhance our capacity to successfully compete in global markets while creating the necessary space for investments to come in.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

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