{"id":1837,"date":"2017-09-09T08:36:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T08:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2017-09-09T08:36:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T08:36:37","slug":"eu-tells-government-to-give-families-of-missing-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/eu-tells-government-to-give-families-of-missing-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"EU tells Government to give families of missing answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The European Union (EU) today asserted that the Government must give answers to the families of those reported missing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">An EU monitoring mission for GSP Plus met the relatives of the disappeared in Kilinochchi on 200th day of their protest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cGovt needs to urgently tell relatives the fate of their loved ones. 5 of the mothers have died since the protest started without closure,\u201d the EU office in Colombo tweeted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In May this year the European Commission decided to grant GSP plus to Sri Lanka giving Sri Lanka access to the EU market under the special scheme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, as is the case for all countries benefitting from GSP Plus, the removal of customs duties for Sri Lanka is accompanied by rigorous monitoring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union (EU) today asserted that the Government must give answers to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1838,"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-1837","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\/1837","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=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}