{"id":2169,"date":"2017-12-11T11:45:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T11:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2017-12-11T11:45:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T11:45:35","slug":"sri-lanka-gifts-a-plot-of-land-for-a-new-chancery-building-for-the-state-of-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lanka-gifts-a-plot-of-land-for-a-new-chancery-building-for-the-state-of-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka gifts a plot of land for a new Chancery Building for the State of Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lanka has gifted a plot of land in the capital city to the Palestinian mission in Colombo to build its new chancery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tilak Marapana, Friday handed over the deed for a plot of land at No. 4, Hewa Avenue, Colombo 7 to the Ambassador for the State of Palestine to Sri Lanka, Zuhair M.H. Zaid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Minister of Foreign Affairs was joined on this occasion by the Minister of Health and Indigenous Medicine and President of the Sri Lanka-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship Association Rajitha Senaratne, Member of Parliament and Secretary of the Sri Lanka-Palestine Friendship Association Bimal Ratnayaka, and the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Ambassador Abdul Hamid A.K. Al Mulla of the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Recalling that Sri Lanka had recognized the State of Palestine in 1988, and had supported Palestine for non-member observer status in the United Nations, Foreign Minister Marapana assured Ambassador Zaid that Sri Lanka will continue to support Palestine for full membership in the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Referring to the foreign ministry-level consultations held this year, the Minister also expressed commitment to expand cooperation between Palestine and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Expressing his appreciation to the Government of Sri Lanka for the plot of land that was gifted for Palestine&#8217;s Chancery building, Ambassador Zaid remarked that this gesture demonstrates Sri Lanka&#8217;s conviction in supporting the just cause that the Palestinian issue represents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka has gifted a plot of land in the capital city to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2170,"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-2169","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\/2169","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=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}