A representative of the US State Department met with the chairman of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation Chairman to discuss Sri Lanka’s potential violation of its commitment to US sanctions on Iran’s crude oil.
The US economic counsellor Mathew Lower met Ranjith Wickremasingha to discuss an alleged attempt to unload one million barrels of Iranian crude oil in Colombo, reports dailymirror.lk.
In a statement made after the meeting on Friday, Mr Wickremasingha, said,
“I explained in detail the circumstances surrounding the oil tanker and the CPC’s action to strictly adhere to the accepted procedure and the refusal to permit the unloading of fuel at the Colombo port.”
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