{"id":4499,"date":"2018-11-09T05:12:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T05:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=4499"},"modified":"2018-11-09T05:12:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T05:12:49","slug":"us-uk-accused-of-interfering-in-sri-lankas-domestic-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/us-uk-accused-of-interfering-in-sri-lankas-domestic-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"US, UK accused of interfering in Sri Lanka\u2019s domestic affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A Government Minister today accused the United States and the United Kingdom of interfering in the domestic affairs of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Minister of National Integration, Reconciliation, and Official Languages Vasudeva Nanayakkara today slammed Speaker Karu Jayasuriya for meeting diplomats in Parliament, after Parliament was prorogued.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In a media statement the Minister said that he was \u201cshocked\u201d that the Speaker entertained diplomats in his Parliament office after Parliament was prorogued, including the Ambassadors of the US and UK.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He noted that the US and UK had recently raised concerns over the alleged intrusion into their electoral and political sphere by other countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cIn such a context I fail to comprehend your tolerance of the intrusive conduct of these Ambassadors of the US and US et al in the affairs of our state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He also alleged that it is an open secret that some of these western countries played an active role in the 2015 elections to oust the then regime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Government Minister today accused the United States and the United Kingdom of interfering&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4500,"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-4499","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\/4499","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=4499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}