{"id":5989,"date":"2019-04-12T07:56:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T07:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=5989"},"modified":"2019-04-12T07:56:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T07:56:35","slug":"speaker-urged-to-investigate-foreign-ministry-communique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/speaker-urged-to-investigate-foreign-ministry-communique\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker urged to investigate Foreign Ministry communiqu\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaker of Parliament Karu Jayasuriya has been requested to investigate a communiqu\u00e9 issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in November last year during the political crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">United National Party (UNP) Parliamentarian Mujibur Rahuman has written to the Speaker calling for action to be taken against the Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In the letter, the UNP MP says the Foreign Ministry had issued a communiqu\u00e9 via fax to all Mission Heads saying Parliament had been dissolved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The communiqu\u00e9 was signed by the then Foreign Minister Sarath Amunugama.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The reason given to dissolve Parliament was the behaviour of the Speaker of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Rahuman says the communiqu\u00e9 harms the dignity of the Office of the Speaker of Parliament and so must be investigated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of Parliament Karu Jayasuriya has been requested to investigate a communiqu\u00e9 issued by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5990,"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-5989","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\/5989","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=5989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}