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on Buddhism to Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) accepts a set of religious
books from a Buddhist priest (R) as President Mahinda Rajapaksa
(C) looks on in Colombo on Tuesday (29). Ahmadinejad, who arrived
from Pakistan, was in Colombo to flag off a US$ 1.5 billion
worth of projects to boost Sri Lanka’s energy needs. He
kicked off a Tehran-funded US$ 700 million project to upgrade
Sri Lanka’s sole refinery at Sapugaskande. However, bad
weather prevented him from launching a Iranian funded US$ 450
million hydro electricity project in Wellawaya. The project
was instead flagged off by Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayake
and senior officials of Ahmadinejad’s 15-member delegation
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