President Mahinda Rajapaksa has ordered External Affairs Minister GL Peiris to look into formulating laws to monitor the funding of foreign NGOs, reported the Daily News.
The laws would be enacted to monitor the entire process, including auditing and accountability for these NGOs so that they don’t act in a manner “inimical to the state”, the president said at a meeting for news paper editors.
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