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* Sri Lanka plans to declare Ceylon Tea a world heritage
Tue, Oct 16, 2012, 10:00 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.

Oct 16, Colombo: Sri Lanka Ministry of National Heritages has planned measures to declare Ceylon Tea as a Word Heritage.

The Ministry has planned to bring a cabinet proposal in this regard before the end of the year.

Additional Secretary of the Ministry of National Heritages D.G. Samarasinghe said that a proposal would be made after that to the World Heritage Committee of the UNESCO.

The plan for declaring Ceylon Tea as a World Heritage is implemented with the support of the Ministries of Plantation and Environment.

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