{"id":12685,"date":"2023-06-10T07:02:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T07:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=12685"},"modified":"2023-06-10T07:02:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T07:02:11","slug":"us-envoy-meets-washington-based-sri-lankan-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/us-envoy-meets-washington-based-sri-lankan-diaspora\/","title":{"rendered":"US envoy meets Washington based Sri Lankan diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung met with Washington based U.S. citizens of Sri Lankan origin for a discussion.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was hosted by Ambassador Mahinda Samarasinghe and was held at the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m back in Washington this week. First on my agenda: meeting with members of the DC-based diaspora community to share stories and insights, strengthen relationships, and continue to build on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USSriLanka75?src=hashtag_click\">#USSriLanka75<\/a> together,\u201d Julie Chung tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>The Sri Lanka Embassy in Washington said that Ambassador Chung interacted with the invitees who represented Sri Lankan Associations in the Washington D.C. \u2013 Maryland \u2013 Virginia area.<\/p>\n<p>She took questions from the participants and the discussion was moderated by Ambassador Samarasinghe, the Sri Lanka Embassy in Washington said.<\/p>\n<p>The Embassy said that the interaction was all the more meaningful in the context of 75 years of Sri Lanka \u2013 U.S. diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was also attended by representatives of the Department of State and the diplomatic staff and officials of the Embassy of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung met with Washington based U.S.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685","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=12685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12687,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685\/revisions\/12687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}