{"id":105998,"date":"2020-08-28T15:16:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T22:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105998"},"modified":"2020-08-28T15:16:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T22:16:26","slug":"sri-lanka-and-norway-aspire-to-further-strengthen-cooperation-in-the-fisheries-and-maritime-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/28\/sri-lanka-and-norway-aspire-to-further-strengthen-cooperation-in-the-fisheries-and-maritime-sectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka and Norway Aspire to Further Strengthen Cooperation in the Fisheries and Maritime Sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>HON PRIME MINISTER&#8217;S MEDIA DIVISION<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The fisheries sector has been an important\npart of the Sri Lanka \u2014 Norway bilateral relationship, and Norway is interested\nin further strengthening those ties through a number of projects in the\nfisheries and maritime sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a meeting with Prime Minister\nMahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees yesterday (Aug. 27), Ambassador of Norway to\nSri Lanka Trine J\u00f8ranli Eskedal spoke about the long-standing friendship\nbetween the two countries that started with cooperation in the fisheries\nsector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fisheries is the cornerstone of our\nbilateral relations,\u201d Ambassador Eskedal said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noting the importance of the fisheries\nsector to Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Rajapaksa stressed the need to address the\nproblem of bottom trawling that is destroying the marine environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Rajapaksa also conveyed to\nAmbassador Eskedal that the main priority for Sri Lanka now and during the post\nCOVID-19 years will be economic development, with a specific focus on\nattracting investors who can now have more confidence in doing business in Sri\nLanka following the stability achieved after the Presidential and General\nElections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambassador Eskedal commended the\ngovernment for its swift and quick reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations on managing the election\nduring COVID,\u201d the Ambassador said. It was a very peaceful election and very\nwell-managed with the challenges of COVID. Congratulations on your successful\ncampaign.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two delegations further discussed a\nnumber of ongoing projects that has Norwegian involvement and several new\nprojects that are being planned for future implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We already have good bilateral relations;\nwe want to strengthen that,\u201d Ambassador Eskedal said. We want to confirm our\ncommitment to Sri Lanka.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HON PRIME MINISTER&#8217;S MEDIA DIVISION The fisheries sector has been an important part of the Sri Lanka \u2014 Norway bilateral relationship, and Norway is interested in further strengthening those ties through a number of projects in the fisheries and maritime sectors. During a meeting with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees yesterday (Aug. 27), [&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-105998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105998","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=105998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}