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Sri Lankan president's son joins official delegation to UN

Daham Sirisena seated behind President Maithripala Sirisena at the UN in New York


Sri Lanka's president Maithripala Sirisena took his son to the UN General Assembly on Friday, despite being elected on a pledge to break away from the nepotism of the previous Rajapaksa regime.

His son, Daham Sirisena, sat with the official government delegation at Sri Lanka's desk, and later accompanied the delegation to Mr Sirisena's meeting with the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi.

Photograph Colombo Telegraph


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