{"id":6985,"date":"2019-08-08T03:46:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T03:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6985"},"modified":"2019-08-08T03:46:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T03:46:30","slug":"sri-lanka-notes-important-role-played-by-late-indian-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lanka-notes-important-role-played-by-late-indian-fm\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka notes important role played by late Indian FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lanka yesterday took note of the important role played by late Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe wrote to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and expressed condolences over the death of former Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In his letter, Wickremesinghe said that Sri Lanka will always remember Swaraj for the personal touch she brought into the relationship between India and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Wickremesinghe also said that the relationship between Sri Lanka and India reached greater heights when Sushma Swaraj was the Indian Foreign Minister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Swaraj, 67, passed away at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Tuesday night after suffering a heart attack in the evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lanka\u2019s High Commissioner to India Austin Fernando and the Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade, Malik Samarawickrama attended the funeral of Smt. Sushma Swaraj in New Delhi yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka yesterday took note of the important role played by late Indian Foreign&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-news","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985","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=6985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}