Sri Lanka declined ground access to two US combat aircraft, president says

Sri Lanka declined permission for two U.S. combat aircraft to land at a civilian airport earlier this month, President Anura ?Kumara Dissanayake told parliament on Friday. The U.S. had requested permission ?for the two aircraft to land at the Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport in the southern part of the country from March 4-8, Dissanayake told lawmakers. "They wanted to bring two ?warplanes armed with eight anti-ship missiles from a base in Djibouti," ?he said during a statement.

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