{"id":1387,"date":"2017-06-05T06:53:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T06:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2017-06-05T06:53:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T06:53:07","slug":"omp-bill-to-be-discussed-in-parliament-on-june-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/omp-bill-to-be-discussed-in-parliament-on-june-22\/","title":{"rendered":"OMP Bill to be discussed in Parliament on June 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Bill on the Office on Missing Persons (OMP) will be discussed in Parliament on June 22, Minister Mano Ganeshan said today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that party leaders met today and decided to discuss the Bill with amendments when Parliament convenes on June 22.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Cabinet had in May last year approved establishing an office on missing persons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Government had said there have been strong requests for providing true information on disappeared or missing persons to their relatives to know their actual fate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In August last year a draft Bill to establish an Office on Missing Persons was passed with amendments in Parliament without a vote.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Later more amendments were sought to the Bill and the amendments will be discussed on June 22.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bill on the Office on Missing Persons (OMP) will be discussed in Parliament&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1388,"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-1387","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\/1387","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=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}