The Hindu : U.S. ship to fuel in Colombo

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Friday, Apr 26, 2002

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U.S. ship to fuel in Colombo

By Nirupama Subramanian

COLOMBO AprIL 25 .A U.S. warship will make a fuel stop at the Colombo port next week, the first visit by an American navy vessel to Sri Lanka in eight years. The U.S. Embassy announced today that the guided missile destroyer, USS Hopper (DDG 70), would visit Colombo on April 30 for a 10-hour refuelling stop.

``The visit of the USS Hopper is emblematic of the friendship between the people of the United States and the people of Sri Lanka. I am especially pleased that we are again seeing an American ship visit Colombo after such a long time,'' the U.S. Ambassador, Ashley Wills, said in a release

from the U.S. Embassy here. The stopover comes a few weeks after the visit by a top Marines official, Brigadier General Timothy Ghormley, who travelled to Jaffna with the U.S. the Assisitant Secretary of State, Christina Rocca.

The general also visited the eastern naval port in Trincomalee.

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