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President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on a plan to safeguard the nearly one million Sri Lankans residing in Middle East conflict zones. Addressing the potential scale of the crisis, the President warned, "If the situation reach a worst-case scenario, our current capabilities will not be sufficient."
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