The United States (US) will help Sri Lanka's new government to restore democracy and heal "fragile ethnic tensions", a senior American official said on Tuesday. Addressing a two-day seminar here, US Department of State Regional Affairs' deputy director Neil Kromash said: "Positive developments have taken place in Sri Lanka where the January elections brought a new government, overthrowing a longstanding autocratic regime. "The US will do all it can to support the new government in restoring democracy and heal fragile ethnic tensions," he said. (IANS)
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