{"id":8951,"date":"2020-06-18T09:41:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T09:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=8951"},"modified":"2020-06-18T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T09:41:07","slug":"government-awaits-final-committee-report-on-mcc-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/government-awaits-final-committee-report-on-mcc-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Government awaits final committee report on MCC deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">The Government says it is awaiting the final report by an expert committee on the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) agreement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Cabinet co-spokesman Bandula Gunawardena was asked about reports that a decision on the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) agreement will be taken after the Parliamentary election in August.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">The US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Alaina B. Teplitz had told journalists recently that the US was awaiting the conclusion of the upcoming election after which a decision will be taken on the deal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">However, Gunawardena said that the Government will not agree to any deal which is harmful to Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">He said that a committee appointed by the President has submitted an interim report on the agreement and the final report was awaited.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">The interim report proposes not signing the agreement in its current form.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Asked if there are some good points in the MCC proposal, Gunawardena said that can be decided only after the final report by the review committee is received.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">The Minister however reiterated that Sri Lanka will not sign any agreement with any country, be it the US or China, with poses a threat to Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government says it is awaiting the final report by an expert committee on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8952,"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-8951","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\/8951","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=8951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}