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Sri Lanka: Why SAARC?

Written byNeha Viswanathan
Posted 9 April 2007 19:54 GMT

True Sri Lankan doesn't quite see the point in SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) “The leaders travel lavishly and stay in lavish hotels during the period of the summit and spend quite a sum of the regions citizens tax money on this puppet summit.”

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