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Iranian president tours oil refinery on visit to Sri Lanka

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held a prayer ceremony with Sri Lanka's Muslim community Tuesday and toured an oil refinery his country is helping to expand as he concluded a brief overnight visit here.

 

Iran has pledged $1.9 billion (-1.2 billion) in soft loans and grants to Sri Lanka to help it expand its only oil refinery, develop an irrigation and hydropower project and buy Iranian oil, the Sri Lankan government said. (AP)

 

 


פרסום ראשון: 04.29.08, 13:15