{"id":106494,"date":"2020-09-11T15:09:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T22:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=106494"},"modified":"2020-09-11T15:09:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T22:09:15","slug":"another-announcement-from-russia-today-likely-to-suspend-tea-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/09\/11\/another-announcement-from-russia-today-likely-to-suspend-tea-purchases\/","title":{"rendered":"Another announcement from Russia today &#8211; likely to suspend tea purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> The Government Medical Officers&#8217; Association states that if action is not taken to protect the independence of the Sri Lanka Medical Council, a severe trade union action will be taken during the week beginning on September 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The executive council of the association met yesterday and decided to convene an emergency central committee meeting in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at a media briefing in Colombo today, the Government Medical Officers&#8217; Association (GMOA) said that Rajitha Senaratne was the only minister who politicized and weakened the Sri Lanka Medical Council.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Cultural Center of the Embassy of the Russian Federation had issued a statement today regarding the decision taken by the Sri Lanka Medical Council to remove three universities from the list of recognized universities in Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement said that Russia and Sri Lanka have a history of more than 60 years of diplomatic relations, and as a result, Sri Lankan students have been awarded scholarships to pursue higher education in the medical field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A statement from the Russian Embassy&#8217;s Cultural Center said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is hoped that the decision will not affect future scholarships to Sri Lanka, and that young people in Sri Lanka will lose access to free higher education at leading Russian universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Russian Center said in a statement yesterday that it was likely to suspend tea purchases in the future as Sri Lanka&#8217;s leading tea buyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We asked Dr. Hector Weerasinghe, the former Director of the Colombo National Hospital, about the standards that have arisen in Russian medical education. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News The Government Medical Officers&#8217; Association states that if action is not taken to protect the independence of the Sri Lanka Medical Council, a severe trade union action will be taken during the week beginning on September 21. The executive council of the association met yesterday and decided to convene an emergency central [&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-106494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106494","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=106494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}