{"id":7165,"date":"2019-09-06T03:34:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T03:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7165"},"modified":"2019-09-06T03:37:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T03:37:28","slug":"us-embassy-responds-to-wimals-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/us-embassy-responds-to-wimals-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"US Embassy responds to Wimal\u2019s allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Responding to the allegations made by MP Wimal Weerawansa, the US Embassy yesterday said it takes security in Sri Lanka very seriously.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It also said all mission personnel and official visitors are instructed to comply with Sri Lankan security and safety procedures within the parameters of the Vienna Convention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cWe are aware of a misunderstanding that took place at the JAIC Hilton over a month ago and was resolved. Our security officers routinely work in close coordination with Sri Lanka security officials and we are grateful for the excellent cooperation,&#8221; the US Embassy spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">National Freedom Front (NFF) Leader MP Weerawansa alleged that six US nationals, who had arrived in Sri Lanka in a US State aircraft, have refused to hand over their luggage for inspection at the JAIC Hilton and at the airport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to the allegations made by MP Wimal Weerawansa, the US Embassy yesterday said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7174,"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-7165","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\/7165","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=7165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}