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The Cabinet Suspends Port City project in Colombo.

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The Cabinet, on a proposal made by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe, has approved to temporarily and immediately suspend the implementation of the Port City project in Colombo.

The Interim Report submitted by committee appointed to review and submit recommendation to the Cabinet Sub Committee on the project has noted that the project was launched and was being implemented without relevant approvals from the concerned institutions.

Taking into consideration the recommendations in the Interim Report, the Cabinet of Ministers have approved to temporarily and immediately suspend the implementation of the project and to advise the relevant project company to present within a period of 2 weeks the approvals which had been obtained from the relevant institutions for the implementation of the project.