Wednesday, April 30, 2008
 
Books on Buddhism to Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Iranian 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 AFP

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