Minister Jayantha: “Too much interest” in the cost of debt restructure delay
With regard to sovereign bonds, due to just the significant delay in the restructuring process, we will have to pay an additional USD 1.7 billion as outstanding interest…What I would like to highlight is that we had to pay an unnecessary amount as interest due to these negotiations.
Parliament | December 5, 2024
Posted on: 10 February, 2025

Partly True
Deputy UNP Leader Ruwan Wijewardene does no disservice to past debt servicing costs
Some people in the present government say that the country has come to this situation because we [yahapalana government] took loans. 80% of the loans we took were used for settling the loans obtained by Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government.
Daily News | April 27, 2022
Posted on: 28 July, 2022

True
MP Herath misrepresents total interest payments
According to the 2018 Central Bank Annual Report, when the total income was Rs. 1,920 billion...
Divaina | May 28, 2019
Posted on: 10 July, 2019

False