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1062:Department of Immigration & Emigration
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317:Defence Services Command and Staff College
120:Learn how and when to remove this message
510:Cumulative expenditure (billions of Rs)
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179:Ministry of External Affairs and Defence
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1385:"Defence Ministry adds UD to its name"
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494:Sri Lanka defence budget, as at 2016
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1499:Sri Lanka: The Untold Story
1427:– via news.bbc.co.uk.
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