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AKD launches third phase of Myliddy fisheries harbour development
September 02, 2025
|The Island
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake yesterday (1) said that it is the responsibility of the government to provide the necessary facilities for the fishing community and that steps were being taken to develop the fisheries harbours in the North in order to provide such facilities and resolve the issues faced by fishing community.
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The President said so at the inauguration of the third phase of the Myliddy Fisheries Harbour Development Project in Jaffna.
The President said that although previous governments acted with the expectation of war, the present government is working with the aim of ensuring that no form of war will ever recur in this country and to build peace and harmony within the nation. He also stated that every plot of land in the North, which was acquired for the security forces during the war, will be released back to the people
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