{"id":9070,"date":"2020-06-30T09:09:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T09:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9070"},"modified":"2020-06-30T09:09:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T09:09:57","slug":"u-s-reaffirms-commitment-to-support-sri-lankas-development-and-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/u-s-reaffirms-commitment-to-support-sri-lankas-development-and-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. reaffirms commitment to support Sri Lanka\u2019s development and Sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The United States Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo today spoke to Sri Lanka\u2019s Foreign Relations Minister Dinesh Gunawardena to reaffirm the US partnership with the people of Sri Lanka and its commitment to supporting the country\u2019s development and sovereignty, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said Secretary Pompeo and Minister Gunawardena discussed mutual interest in combatting the COVID-19 pandemic and shared commitment to economic stability and sustainable growth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0\u201cThe two leaders also discussed the United States\u2019 ongoing COVID-19 assistance to Sri Lanka, which totals almost $6 million to date, and reviewed the longstanding U.S.-Sri Lankan cooperation on health and humanitarian issues,\u201d Ortagus said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0\u201cAdditionally, the Secretary and the Foreign Minister talked about our shared democratic traditions, respect for human rights, and the importance of transparency for the long-term stability and prosperity of our people,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo today spoke to Sri Lanka\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9071,"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-9070","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\/9070","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=9070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}