Sri Lanka is grateful to China for its generous help in the aftermath of
the fatal tsunami, the country's Finance Minister Sarath Amunugama said Tuesday.
"We are very happy with China's donations and contributions. Sri Lanka will
fully recover with the help from the international community," he said told
Xinhua.
He described China's assistance as timely and efficient.
Amunugama, who is here for an international donors' conference,said emergency
relief has completed and that the aid efforts now have entered the phase of
rehabilitation and reconstruction.
"Our current needs are focused on health and sanitation needs and social and
environmental protection followed by rehabilitationof the affected communities
and economic recovery," he added.
Amunugama urged the international community to provide more help and assured
that all donations to Sri Lanka will be used efficiently.
He also thanked all donor nations for manifesting a unique sense of human
solidarity in face of the tsunami.
The donors' conference, held under the auspices of the United Nations, drew
more than 250 representatives from donor nations, tsunami-affected countries and
international and regional organizations.
