{"id":11575,"date":"2022-02-22T11:30:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T11:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=11575"},"modified":"2022-02-22T11:30:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T11:30:07","slug":"sri-lanka-advises-against-non-essential-travel-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lanka-advises-against-non-essential-travel-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka advises against non-essential travel to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sri Lankans have been urged to avoid non-essential travel to Ukraine at present, the Sri Lanka Foreign Ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US officials have said that intelligence suggests Russia is ready to launch a military operation in Ukraine, which Moscow denies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Government of Sri Lanka is closely monitoring the situation in Ukraine in the context of recent developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Sri Lanka Embassy in Ankara, concurrently accredited to Kyiv, is in close contact with the over forty Sri Lankan nationals, including fourteen students, residing in Ukraine, with a view to ensuring their safety and welfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While six of the fourteen Sri Lankan students in Ukraine have left the country temporarily, the Sri Lanka Embassy in Ankara is in close communication with the eight remaining students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Foreign Ministry requests all Sri Lankan nationals in Ukraine to exercise vigilance and to be in contact with the Sri Lanka Embassy in Ankara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankans have been urged to avoid non-essential travel to Ukraine at present, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11576,"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-11575","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\/11575","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=11575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11577,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11575\/revisions\/11577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}