{"id":107784,"date":"2020-10-20T15:29:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T22:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=107784"},"modified":"2020-10-20T15:29:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T22:29:55","slug":"korean-prime-minister-calls-prime-minister-rajapaksa-discusses-education-investment-and-tourism-october-20-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/10\/20\/korean-prime-minister-calls-prime-minister-rajapaksa-discusses-education-investment-and-tourism-october-20-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean Prime Minister Calls Prime Minister Rajapaksa, Discusses Education, Investment and Tourism October 20, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Unit<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister of Korea\nChung Sye-kyun called Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning, and the\ntwo leaders discussed a number of areas of mutual bilateral interest while\nexpressing the desire to further enhance relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While congratulating Prime\nMinister Rajapaksa on the victory at the recently-concluded General Election,\nPrime Minister Chung said he looks forward to continue working with Sri Lanka\nto further strengthen bilateral relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two leaders also\ndiscussed further technical assistance for the Ocean University, for which the\nKorea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has already provided assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope we can continue to\ncollaborate on this project to expand it,\u201d Prime Minister Rajapaksa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other areas discussed\nincluded investment and tourism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the situation [with the\npandemic] improves and air travel is back to normal, I would like to request\nyour support in encouraging your investors to consider investing in Sri Lanka,\u201d\nPrime Minister Rajapaksa said. We also want to increase tourism from Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Rajapaksa\nextended an invitation to Prime Minister Chung to visit Sri Lanka after the\nCOVID-19 situation is under control, and the Korean Prime Minister, noting that\nhe has never visited Sri Lanka before, expressed interest in a visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Unit Prime Minister of Korea Chung Sye-kyun called Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning, and the two leaders discussed a number of areas of mutual bilateral interest while expressing the desire to further enhance relations between the two countries. While congratulating Prime Minister Rajapaksa on the victory at the recently-concluded General Election, [&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-107784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107784","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=107784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}