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Sri Lanka's finance minister resigns a day after being sworn in - letter

Ali Sabry Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's Finance Minister, Ali Sabry, resigned on Tuesday a day after being sworn in, amid growing public unrest over a worsening economic crisis.

"I hereby tender my resignation from the post of Minister of Finance with immediate effect," Sabry said in a letter to the president, seen by Reuters.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed Sabry on Monday after dissolving his cabinet and dropping his brother, Basil Rajapaksa, who previously served as finance minister.

(Reporting by Uditha Jayasinghe, Writing by Devjyot Ghoshal, Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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