{"id":304468,"date":"2018-10-20T15:57:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T15:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304468"},"modified":"2018-10-20T15:57:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T15:57:16","slug":"eam-swaraj-meets-sri-lankan-pm-discusses-ways-to-strengthen-bilateral-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/eam-swaraj-meets-sri-lankan-pm-discusses-ways-to-strengthen-bilateral-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"EAM Swaraj meets Sri Lankan PM, discusses ways to strengthen bilateral ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/eam-swaraj-meets-sri-lankan-pm-discusses-ways-to-strengthen-bilateral-ties\/sushma-srilanka\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-304469\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-304469 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sushma-srilanka-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/sushma-srilanka-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/sushma-srilanka-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/sushma-srilanka-696x496.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/sushma-srilanka-589x420.jpg 589w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/sushma-srilanka.jpg 704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Indian External Affairs Minister (EAM) Sushma Swaraj on October 20 met visiting Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and reviewed the progress of India-assisted development projects in the island nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Sri Lankan PM is on a three-day visit to India to boost ties in a range of areas that includes trade, investment and maritime security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">EAM Swaraj and PM Wickremesinghe also discussed ways to strengthen bilateral ties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Raveesh Kumar, spokesperson Ministry of External Affairs, tweeted &#8220;Continuing commitment to deepen our partnership with a close friend. EAM @SushmaSwaraj called on Sri Lanka PM Ranil Wickremesinghe @RW_UNP. Exchanged views on strengthening bilateral relations and reviewed progress on development projects.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier in the day Home Minister Rajnath Singh also called on PM Wickremesinghe and discussed issues related to security and terrorism in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This visit of PM Wickremesinghe to India is his fifth official visit since taking office in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian External Affairs Minister (EAM) Sushma Swaraj on October 20 met visiting Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and reviewed the progress of India-assisted development projects in the island nation. The Sri Lankan PM is on a three-day visit to India to boost ties in a range of areas that includes trade, investment and maritime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[4352,5721,4881,892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304471,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304468\/revisions\/304471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}