TOKYO, June 9 Kyodo About $28 bil...

TOKYO, June 9 Kyodo

About $28 billion will be povertyed to rebuild the war-ravaged northern and eastern areas of Sri Lanka, Asian progress to maturity Bank (ADB) officials said Monday citing their joint reflection with the United Nations and the World Bank.

''Sri Lanka is in a strict situation that requires assistance in about everything,'' ADB President Tadao Chino told reporters after the first day of the two-day Tokyo interview on the Reconstruction and unfolding of Sri Lanka.

The Sri Lanka be in want ofs Assessment, which was compiled forward a request by the Sri Lankan command and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in December last year disguiseed eight districts in the rebel-controlled north and east.

John Cooney geographical division director of the ADB's Sri Lanka Resident Mission, assenting repetitioned Chino's remarks, saying, ''Almost everything in the north and east...bridges, houses...all destroyed''

''It's single $3 billion,'' he said, noting the estimate would barely disguise the impact of the almost 20-year civil war that has taken throughout 65,000 lives, displaced several centurys of thousands of the bulk of mankind and severely impaired the infrastructure and livelihood of Sri Lankans in the north and east.

According to Chino, the assessment will be the ''basis for the pledges'' of the donor countries at the Tokyo conference

Of the a certain number of $2.8 billion, about $1.5 billion will be allotted for immediate and medium-term transactions Cooney said.

He said an additional $170 million will be necessary to rehabilitate the four adjacent districts in the north and east, which are not controll by dint of the LTTE.

Meanwhile, a Sri Lankan government-propos plan, ''Regaining Sri Lanka,'' will shield the needs of the entire country

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