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India's help during LTTE war reduced pressure: Sri Lanka
Terming India its "closest ally", Sri Lanka has said its support during the war with the LTTE helped "reduce the pressure" mounted by the world community and allowed it to proceed with humanitarian operations in the war-ravaged north unhindered.
"The relationship developed over the past four years with our closest ally, India helped us in many ways in our war against terrorism," the powerful Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said.
India's support greatly helped "reduce the pressure mounted by other nations," which allowed us to proceed with our humanitarian operations unhindered, Rajapaksa the brother of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said in Colombo on Sunday in Colombo.
"It is very important that we strengthen this key relationship even further in the years to come," he said while speaking at a function in Colombo.
India's help during LTTE war reduced pressure: Sri Lanka