Colombo: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is to present a roadmap on overcoming the current economic crisis to Parliament soon, local media reported on Friday.
Wickremesinghe said the roadmap will be completed after taking proposals and suggestions from MPs who he met on Thursday night to discuss the crisis which is the worst since the country gained freedom in 1948, reports Xinhua news agency.
He said that the drafting of the roadmap has already been commenced.
Also on Thursday night, Secretary to the Ministry of Finance Mahinda Siriwardana gave a presentation to the parliamentarians on the short and medium-term strategies of the government to overcome the crisis.
The country is facing extreme fuel shortages, soaring food prices and a lack of medicines.
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