{"id":11373,"date":"2021-11-11T10:06:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T10:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=11373"},"modified":"2021-11-11T10:06:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T10:06:25","slug":"sri-lanka-threatens-to-drag-x-press-pearl-before-international-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lanka-threatens-to-drag-x-press-pearl-before-international-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka threatens to drag X-Press Pearl before international court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sri Lanka has threatened to drag the owners of the X-Press Pearl ship before an international court if they refuse to pay the full compensation for the damage caused to the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justice Minister Ali Sabry told Parliament today that Australian expertise has been obtained to assess the full damage caused to the environment as a result of the fire on the ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that while compensation has been obtained for the damage caused to fishermen and the economy as a result of the fire, a further assessment is being made on the damage to the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justice Minister Ali Sabry said that if the shipping company refuses to pay the full compensation then Sri Lanka is prepared to take the case before an international court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Minister said that 1650 tonnes of plastic pallets washed ashore from the ship have already been collected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The X-Press Pearl vessel which was carrying cargo with chemicals had caught fire due to an explosion off the coast of Colombo in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eight containers with cargo had fallen into the sea after which debris and packages had washed ashore along the coast from Colombo to Negombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ship eventually sank in Sri Lankan waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka has threatened to drag the owners of the X-Press Pearl ship before&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11375,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373\/revisions\/11375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}