{"id":104058,"date":"2020-06-29T15:48:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T22:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104058"},"modified":"2020-06-29T15:48:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T22:48:12","slug":"mcc-review-report-to-be-presented-to-cabinet-as-next-step-gl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/29\/mcc-review-report-to-be-presented-to-cabinet-as-next-step-gl\/","title":{"rendered":"MCC review report to be presented to Cabinet as next step: GL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The final report of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Agreement review committee would be presented to the Cabinet to be studied before making a decision on the agreement, Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister, Professor G.L.Peiris said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at a news briefing held at the Sri Lanka Podujana Permanua (SLPP) headoffice, Professor Peiris said they believed that the report would be presented to the next Cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cabinet and the government should study the final report before making a decision on the MCC agreement. Anyone can access the final report now since it has been made public. The government hides nothing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Peiris said the government has to take into consideration all aspects prior to making a decision, as it cannot take spontaneous decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, SLPP General Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam said a SLPP Government would never sign any agreement harmful to the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It could be the MCC or any other, but we will never sign any agreement detrimental to the country,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror The final report of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Agreement review committee would be presented to the Cabinet to be studied before making a decision on the agreement, Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister, Professor G.L.Peiris said. Speaking at a news briefing held at the Sri Lanka Podujana Permanua [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}