State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe said he appreciated the continued partnership with USAID in promoting sustainable economic development in Sri Lanka.

He expressed this view in a tweet after meeting USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Asia, Änjali Kaur, in Washington.

Semasinghe is in Washington to attend the World Bank – IMF Spring Meetings.Samantha Power serves in the Biden-Harris Administration as the USAID Administrator.

More than a million Sri Lankan paddy farmers in all 25 districts will get vital assistance through a shipment of over 36,000 metric tons of fertilizer handed over today by the United States to the Ministry of Agriculture