{"id":106403,"date":"2020-09-08T15:15:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T22:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=106403"},"modified":"2020-09-08T15:15:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T22:15:57","slug":"australian-high-commissioner-calls-on-prime-minister-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/09\/08\/australian-high-commissioner-calls-on-prime-minister-rajapaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian High Commissioner Calls on Prime Minister Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Unit<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Australian High Commissioner David\nHolly called on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees yesterday\n(Sept. 7) afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While congratulating Prime\nMinister Rajapaksa for the election victory and reappointment as Prime\nMinister, Ambassador Holly thanked Sri Lanka for the mutual support in the\nfight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Australia has provided assistance to Sri\nLanka by providing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Rajapaksa thanked\nAustralia for its strong support to Sri Lanka throughout the years. He also\nrecalled his recent phone conversation with Australian Prime Minister Scott\nMorrison, who called Prime Minister Rajapaksa last month to congratulate him on\nthe election victory. Prime Minister Rajapaksa invited Prime Minister Morrison\nto visit Sri Lanka once the Coronavirus situation is under control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking about priorities for the\nnew Government, Prime Minister Rajapaksa highlighted the agricultural sector\nand the Government\u2019s plan to provide safe drinking water to all citizens. The two\ndelegations also spoke about the impact that chronic kidney disease (CKD) is\nhaving on the populations in both countries. One in ten Australians also suffer\nfrom CKD, said Ambassador Holly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two delegations also discussed\na number of other areas of cooperation including the sectors of education,\nvocational training and dairy, as\nwell as cooperation in counter-terrorism, and countering people smuggling and\ndrug trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our relationship has broadened\nconsiderably,\u201d Ambassador Holly said, noting that Australia would like to see\nSri Lanka as a logistics hub and a key market driver.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Unit Australian High Commissioner David Holly called on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees yesterday (Sept. 7) afternoon. While congratulating Prime Minister Rajapaksa for the election victory and reappointment as Prime Minister, Ambassador Holly thanked Sri Lanka for the mutual support in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Australia has provided [&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-106403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106403","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=106403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}