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Sri Lankan president condemns terrorist attack on Afghan parliament

Xinhua, June 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Tuesday condemned a terrorist attack on the Afghanistan parliament and stressed the collective need to defeat terrorism and other threats to democracy.

In a government statement released here, Sirisena described the attack as a heinous act of terrorism and added that such attempts to subvert the country's democracy can not deter Afghanistan in its fight against this menace.

"I condemn the attack on the parliament of Afghanistan, a fellow democracy in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), as a heinous act of terrorism," the president said in the statement.

"As a nation that fought terrorism for nearly three decades and successfully eradicated it, Sri Lanka empathizes with the victims and their families and wish those wounded in the attack a speedy recovery," he added.

The president further said that Sri Lanka stood in solidarity with the members of the Afghan parliament and reiterated the collective need to defeat terrorism and other threats to democracy. Endi