Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe focused the Cabinet’s attention to the economic use of expending government funds on various projects and activities.

Accordingly, the Cabinet has agreed that the following criteria should be adopted in expending government funds:

• Minimizing to the maximum foreign visits by Ministers, State Ministers, Deputy Ministers, all elected public representatives and Government officials,

• Even in undertaking essential foreign visits, to include in the delegation only persons who would be required to participate in such delegations.

• To reduce the number of security vehicles and personnel to for the dignitaries and people’s representatives who have been provided with such security vehicles and personnel.

• Making these conditions and stipulations applicable to regional authorities, security forces, state institutions, established Boards of Government, and State owned companies as well.