{"id":106175,"date":"2020-09-02T14:48:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T21:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=106175"},"modified":"2020-09-02T14:48:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T21:48:34","slug":"sri-lanka-and-japan-seek-to-enhance-long-standing-bilateral-relationship-to-new-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/09\/02\/sri-lanka-and-japan-seek-to-enhance-long-standing-bilateral-relationship-to-new-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka and Japan Seek to Enhance Long-Standing Bilateral Relationship to \u201cNew Heights\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Office<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Ambassador of Japan to Sri Lanka Akira\nSugiyama called on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this\nmorning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I congratulate you on the victory at the\nrecent election and reappointment as Prime Minister,\u201d Ambassador Sugiyama said.\nHe also handed over two congratulatory letters, from Japanese Prime Minister\nShinz\u014d Abe and Mr. Yasushi Akashi, Representative of the Government of Japan on\nPeace-Building, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambassador Sugiyama said that Sri Lanka holding\nelections in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic clearly shows the strength of\ndemocracy in Sri Lanka.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the two delegations discussed the new\nGovernment\u2019s priorities, Prime Minister Rajapaksa highlighted the need to\nprovide safe drinking water to all Sri Lankans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ambassador informed the Prime Minister\nof the various sectors that Japan is engaged in, including infrastructure,\nwater, waste water management, agriculture, human resource development and\ncounterterrorism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can provide assistance to suit Sri\nLanka\u2019s needs,\u201d the Ambassador said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking about challenges anticipated in\nthe post COVID-19 months and years, Ambassador Sugiyama said Japan is keen on\nassisting Sri Lanka uplift its tourism sector once again and to attract Japanese\ninvestors to Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We look forward to working with the new\ngovernment to taking the long-standing relations to&nbsp; greater height,\u201d the Ambassador said. Japan\nremains committed to Sri Lanka\u2019s economic development, he further noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Office The Ambassador of Japan to Sri Lanka Akira Sugiyama called on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this morning. I congratulate you on the victory at the recent election and reappointment as Prime Minister,\u201d Ambassador Sugiyama said. He also handed over two congratulatory letters, from Japanese Prime Minister Shinz\u014d Abe [&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-106175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106175","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=106175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}