{"id":3479,"date":"2018-07-16T04:35:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T04:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2018-07-16T04:35:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T04:35:24","slug":"gotabaya-prepared-to-contest-the-next-presidential-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/gotabaya-prepared-to-contest-the-next-presidential-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotabaya prepared to contest the next Presidential elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa says he is prepared to contest the next Presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Rajapaksa has said this in an interview with the Veerakesari newspaper which was published today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In the interview, Rajapaksa also said that it was clear slain LTTE leader Vellupillai Prabakaran was never committed to peace talks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that Prabakaran had several opportunities to reach a negotiated settlement to the conflict yet he never made use of those opportunities. Rajapaksa said that one opportunity Prabakaran had was in 1987 through Indian mediation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The former Defence Secretary said that if Prabakaran made use of the opportunity in 1987 he would have had the support of India and the international community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa says he is prepared to contest the next Presidential&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3480,"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-3479","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\/3479","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=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}