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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dharatha" data-source="post: 8762777" data-attributes="member: 14094"><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: Purple"><span style="font-family: 'System'">The Maldivian government hopes to finalise an agreement with Sri Lanka to establish a credit line worth US$200 million, President Mohamed Nasheed told press today prior to departing for Sri Lanka to attend the swearing-in ceremony of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.</span></span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Purple"><span style="font-family: 'System'"></span></span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Purple"><span style="font-family: 'System'">As preliminary discussions for the credit line has been ongoing for some time, the President said that he hoped an agreement would be signed in the near future between the Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA) and the Sri Lankan Central Bank.</span></span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Purple"><span style="font-family: 'System'"></span></span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Purple"><span style="font-family: 'System'">“Our aim is not really to use that money for anything,” he explained. “Our aim is to set up a mechanism for Sri Lankan currency to be available for purchase in the Maldives and for Maldivian currency to be available for purchase in Sri Lanka. To set up that mechanism, first of all a framework agreement has to be established. God willing, these discussions will reach a conclusion during this trip.”</span></span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Purple"><span style="font-family: 'System'"></span></span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Purple"><span style="font-family: 'System'">He added that the government’s objective was to enable Maldivians to purchase Sri Lankan rupees with Maldivian rufiyaa for imports as well as making Maldivian rufiyaa available to Sri Lankans who wish to buy Maldivian goods.</span></span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Purple"><span style="font-family: 'System'"></span></span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Purple"><span style="font-family: 'System'">The mechanism would improve the country’s balance of payments, broaden business opportunities and alleviate the high demand for US dollars in the country, he said.</span></span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Purple"><span style="font-family: 'System'"></span></span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Purple"><span style="font-family: 'System'">While Sri Lankans would spend more on Maldivian products as a result of the agreement, local demand for US dollars would “decline significantly” when Maldivians are able to spend “their own currency in Sri Lanka”.</span></span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Purple"><span style="font-family: 'System'"></span></span></p><p></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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