Expensive to maintain ex-presidents: Sri Lanka

However, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, after he was elected, appointed a committee to report to the cabinet on the privileges.

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Sri Lanka government on Wednesday announced that a committee is reviewing the issue of the expenditure on security details for former presidents and a decision would be taken only after its report.

Declaring that it is expensive to maintain the former presidents, Vijitha Herath, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the cabinet spokesperson, told reporters here that the government incurs an expenditure as high as Rs 1,100 million annually for it.