{"id":4243,"date":"2018-10-18T08:01:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T08:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=4243"},"modified":"2018-10-18T08:01:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T08:01:51","slug":"president-and-tna-discuss-key-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/president-and-tna-discuss-key-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"President and TNA discuss key issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">President Maithripala Sirisena and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) met today and had talks on key issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The President\u2019s office said that they discussed the need for a political solution to address the issues faced by the Tamils and also development projects in the North.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Meanwhile, TNA Parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran told reporters that the issue on Tamil political prisoners was also discussed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that further talks are expected to take place on the Tamil political prisoner issue next week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">TNA leader R. Sampanthan led the TNA at the meeting with the President.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Meanwhile, a delegation from the Tamil Progressive Alliance also met President Maithripala Sirisena today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Attention was drawn to the salary issues of the estate community and the further regulation of the development activities in those areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Leader of the Tamil Progressive Alliance, Minister Mano Ganeshan and Ministers Pallani Digambaram and Radhakrishna were also present at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Maithripala Sirisena and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) met today and had talks&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4244,"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-4243","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\/4243","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=4243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}