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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7614494" data-attributes="member: 92282">Sri Lanka's government on Tuesday proposed maintaining defence  spending at nearly the same level as in the final year of its massive  military offensive against the Tamil Tiger separatists.Figures  presented to parliament showed that the government had allocated 201  billion rupees (1.8 billion dollars) on defence for 2010, down  marginally from an estimated 210 billion spent in 2009.Defence  spending in 2008 was 204 billion rupees.Government troops crushed  the Tamil rebels in May last year, ending what had become Asia's  longest-running ethnic conflict, which claimed up to 100,000 lives since  the war began in 1972.Sri Lanka's key aid donors have asked the  government to prune the size of its budget to sustain economic stability  as the island emerges from nearly four decades of ethnic strife.The  highest allocation within the defence ministry budget goes to the army,  which will absorb just over half of the entire expenditure to maintain  its 200,000 personnel.President Mahinda Rajapakse, who is also  finance minister, is due to unveil the full 2010 budget on June 29.Sri  Lanka's fiscal deficit shot up to 9.7 percent of gross domestic product  in 2009, above a seven percent target set by the International Monetary  Fund when it released a 2.6 billion dollar bailout package last July.<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jW4ayls4MCSVTVyfChufnzHNdK2g" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/img/afp_logo.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>yudde kale wage salli wiyadan karanawa <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/baffled.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":baffled:" title="Baffled    :baffled:" data-shortname=":baffled:" />yudde ewerai kiyala rupavahini eke kiyan ne <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/baffled.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":baffled:" title="Baffled    :baffled:" data-shortname=":baffled:" /></blockquote>

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