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<p>Our assessment is that the crisis in Sri Lanka is being adequately managed through
existing mechanisms in Sri Lanka, including the Government’s National Disaster Management
Office (NDMO) and humanitarian agencies on the ground, including the Sri Lankan Red
Cross Society. The UK provides significant amounts of funding to UN humanitarian emergency
agencies (such as UNHCR, UNICEF and WFP), the EU’s humanitarian emergency response
agency (ECHO) and the Red Cross, all of whom are contributing to the response. At
the moment therefore we do not anticipate that a bilateral response from the UK will
be needed. Other countries in the region are also providing assistance, and the US
and EU have offered their support.</p>
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