A Sri Lankan government minister stated that the government would be granted the European Union’s GSP+ trade concessions in June 2016.
Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade Malik Samarawickrema told parliament today that with the expected reinstatement of the concessions, the country would go on to gain many benefits.
Last month the country's deputy minister of foreign affairs, Harsha De Silva, made similar claims, stating the concessions would be reinstated by the “middle of 2016”, after Sri Lanka’s co-sponsoring of a UN Human Rights Council resolution to investigate mass atrocities had "helped repair strained foreign relations".
See our earlier post:
Sri Lanka will apply for GSP+ this year says minister (05 Oct 2015)
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