Sri Lanka's deputy minister of public enterprise developement, Eran Wickramaratne on Monday rejected media reports which said the finance minister was being harrassed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Local media had quoted the finance minister, Ravi Karunanayake as saying, "we have another 55 days for the budget, and as the finance minister, I get harassed, by nobody else than the IMF."
Rejecting this, Mr Wickramaratne said in an interview to BBC Sinhala: "it's wrong interpretation. There is no such hassle from IMF. Our government moves the economy according to our needs. We make decisions in accordance with the economic principles we believe."
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