Sri Lanka has donated US$ 50,000 to the Philippine Government to assist that country’s disaster relief operations following the disastrous flooding caused by the Typhoon Washi last month.

Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the Philippines Nawalage Bennet Cooray handed over the donation of US$ 50,000 to the Indonesian Foreign Minister, Albert F. Del Rosario at a simple ceremony held at the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila January 25, 2012.