The Sri Lankan President told his supporters that he has spent the last three years of his tenure winning over the international community, according to dailynews.lk.
"The international community kept faith in me and 193 countries of the United Nations are good friends of Sri Lanka," President Maithripala Sirisena told supporters at an election rally in Hambantota.
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