{"id":1834,"date":"2017-09-09T08:35:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T08:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2017-09-09T08:35:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T08:35:30","slug":"sri-lanka-pakistan-urged-to-strengthen-trade-and-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lanka-pakistan-urged-to-strengthen-trade-and-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka &#8211; Pakistan urged to strengthen trade and investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lanka Pakistan Business Council of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce recently hosted a delegation from the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">LCCI is the oldest and largest trade body in Pakistan with strong credentials having a large membership base standing around 20 thousand members.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The delegation, led by Senior Vice President of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry Amjad Ali Jawa consisted of Pharmaceuticals, IT &amp; Beauty Sectors. The Sri Lanka Pakistan Business Council organized a Business Forum. Rohitha Thilakaratne, President of the Business Council welcomed the delegation and discussed the relationship the two countries enjoy and the possible opportunities that exists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Addressing the delegates, Acting High Commissioner of Pakistan Dr Safraz Ahmed Khan Sipra mentioned importance of the Business Forum and the assistance the Pakistan High Commission is willing to extend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Managing Director of State Pharmaceuticals Dr H U M Rumie, spoke on the topic of &#8220;Importing of Laboratory items and Medical Devices&#8221; especially highlighting the tender procedures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Chrishan de Mel, Executive Director, Sri Lanka Association for Software &amp; Services Companies elaborated on &#8220;What makes Sri Lanka a popular destination for IT\/BPM services?&#8221;. Trihan Perera, President, Sri Lanka Pharmaceuticals Manufacturers Association discussed Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in Sri Lanka: Overview and Opportunities. Vidharshana Fernando, Executive Director of Board of Investments of Sri Lanka encouraged investment opportunities available in the interested sectors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Business Forum ended with B2B meetings between the members of the Sri Lanka Pakistan Business Council and the delegates from the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka Pakistan Business Council of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce recently hosted a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834","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=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}