{"id":2663,"date":"2018-03-09T19:58:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T19:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2018-03-09T19:58:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T19:58:48","slug":"japan-assures-sri-lanka-full-support-to-ensure-maritime-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/japan-assures-sri-lanka-full-support-to-ensure-maritime-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan assures Sri Lanka full support to ensure maritime security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The visiting Chief of Japanese Defense Staff Admiral Katsutoshi Kawana has assured Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena that the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force would fully support measures taken to ensure Sri Lanka&#8217;s maritime security, the President&#8217;s Media Unit said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Admiral Katsutoshi Kawana, Chief of Japanese Defense Staff called on President Maithripala Sirisena at the President&#8217;s Residence, on Friday (09).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">During the meeting, the Japanese defense official agreed to a request made by the President to increase training opportunities for Sri Lanka Navy personnel in Japan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The talks also focused on the need for prevention of drug smuggling across seas. They also agreed to exchange technical knowledge in disaster management.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Chief of Sri Lankan Defense Staff, Admiral Ravindra C. Wijegunaratne was present on this occasion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The visiting Chief of Japanese Defense Staff Admiral Katsutoshi Kawana has assured Sri Lankan&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2664,"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-2663","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\/2663","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=2663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}