{"id":3608,"date":"2018-08-02T07:11:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T07:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2018-08-02T07:11:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T07:11:10","slug":"commonwealth-chief-discusses-several-issues-with-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/commonwealth-chief-discusses-several-issues-with-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth chief discusses several issues with Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland held talks on wide ranging issues with Sri Lanka today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Scotland, who is in Sri Lanka on an official visit, had separate talks with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, Foreign Minister Tilak Marapana and Sports Minister Faiszer Musthapha.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Following her meeting with the Prime Minister, Scotland lauded Sri Lanka for being a blue charter champion on mangroves, its support for the Commonwealth Small States Trade Finance Facility and dedication to universal healthcare.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On her meeting with the Foreign Minister she said she was pleased to engage again with him on the CHOGM 2018 mandate delivery, including a blue charter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">With the Sports Minister she said she discussed the need to champion the Commonwealth Community Cricketing Cup.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">She and the Minister also agreed on the benefits of using sport as a tool for peace and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland held talks on wide ranging issues with Sri Lanka today.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3609,"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-3608","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\/3608","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=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}