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Sri Lanka PM Ranil Wickremesinghe says he is willing to step down

Sri Lanka's ousted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe arrives at the parliament in Colombo on November 30, 2018.


By  AFP

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Colombo,  

 Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was willing to resign to make way for a new unity government, his office said Saturday, after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence when it was mobbed by protesters.
"So as to ensure safety of the citizens, he is agreeable to this recommendation by opposition party leaders" to quit, Wickremesinghe's office said.
 


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