{"id":4865,"date":"2018-12-20T15:35:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T15:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2018-12-20T15:35:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T15:35:41","slug":"us-eager-to-work-with-reinstated-sri-lankan-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/us-eager-to-work-with-reinstated-sri-lankan-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"US eager to work with reinstated Sri Lankan Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The United States yesterday praised the restoration of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was controversially ousted by President Maithripala Sirisena and replaced by a former president Mahinda Rajapaksa in October, and voiced eagerness to work with him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">U.S. State Department spokesman Robert Palladino, has said that Sri Lanka is a valued partner in the Indo-Pacific and the U.S. expects to work with the Prime Minister and the new government to advance the bilateral cooperation, AFP reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;We are pleased that the leadership in Sri Lanka has resolved the political crisis of the past several weeks in accordance with constitutional norms and the rule of law,&#8221; State Department spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;Sri Lanka is a valued partner in the Indo-Pacific, and we look forward to engaging with Prime Minister Wickremesinghe and his cabinet to advance cooperation on bilateral and regional issues of common interest,&#8221; Mr Palladino said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Mr. Wickremesinghe&#8217;s dismissal sparked an outcry at home and abroad, with his allies saying that China, which forged a close economic relationship with Mr. Rajapakse, was involved, a claim denied by China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Meanwhile, several countries have extended congratulatory messages on the reappointment of Mr. Wickremesinghe to the Prime Minister post.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The European Union representing 17 countries, Norway, Australia, Switzerland and India, welcomed the Prime Minister&#8217;s appointment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States yesterday praised the restoration of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4866,"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-4865","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\/4865","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=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}