{"id":3192,"date":"2018-05-25T06:12:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T06:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2018-05-25T06:12:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T06:12:13","slug":"sl-defence-attache-issue-raised-in-british-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sl-defence-attache-issue-raised-in-british-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"SL Defence Attach\u00e9 issue raised in British Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The issue of former Defence Attach\u00e9 Brigadier Priyankara Fernando was raised by MP Hywel Williams in the British Parliament on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The MP asked Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific Mark Field what discussions he has had with Sri Lankan Foreign Affairs Minister since the return of the Defence Attach\u00e9 of Sri Lankan High Commission in London.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">State Minister Field said he met Minister Tilak Marapana on April 18 on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Summit and raised the Defence Attach\u00e9 incident with him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cThe former Defence Attach\u00e9&#8217;s posting to London was formally ended by the Government of Sri Lanka on April 15. No successor has yet been appointed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Brigadier Fernando was the Defence Attach\u00e9 of the Sri Lankan High Commission in London. He was summoned to Sri Lanka over the incident where he showed a throat-cut gesture towards a group of protesting LTTE supporters in London.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The issue of former Defence Attach\u00e9 Brigadier Priyankara Fernando was raised by MP Hywel&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3193,"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-3192","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\/3192","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=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}