{"id":3470,"date":"2018-07-13T19:01:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T19:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2018-07-13T19:01:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T19:01:34","slug":"sri-lanka-assures-india-on-ongoing-projects-fishermen-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lanka-assures-india-on-ongoing-projects-fishermen-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka assures India on ongoing projects, fishermen issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lanka and India today had talks on the progress on Indian funded projects as well as on the fishermen issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Prime Minister Ranil Wickremsinghe met Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Keshav Gokhale today and had wide ranging discussions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Prime Minister\u2019s office said that Wickremsinghe assured India that several Indian funded projects will get off the ground this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Both sides also discussed matters related to the proposed Economic and Technology Co-operation Agreement (ETCA).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cStrong regional relationships are integral to our plans to grow our economy and strengthen our position as an Indian Ocean economic hub. Today I met with the Indian Foreign Secretary, Mr Vijay Keshav Gokhale, as we continue to build our relationship with India,\u201d the Prime Minister tweeted after the meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Prime Minister\u2019s office said that both sides also had talks on the Indian funded housing project in the North for war displaced families.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The issue on Indian fishermen crossing into Sri Lankan waters was also discussed and it was noted that Indian fishermen in Sri Lankan custody will be released.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka and India today had talks on the progress on Indian funded projects&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-news","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","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=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}