[Archyde.com, 28th Colombo]-Sri Lanka’s Minister of Electricity and Energy Wijesekera announced on the 28th that he will pay $ 72.6 million to buy 90,000 tons of Russian oil that had been in the port of Colombo for several weeks.
Sri Lanka has difficulty in importing and paying fuel, food and medicines due to a serious shortage of foreign currency. Dealing with a serious energy crisis.
“We are asking countries, including Russia, to help import crude oil and other petroleum products,” he told reporters. He said the payment would advance the reopening of the only refinery in the country that had been closed since March 25.