{"id":107801,"date":"2020-10-21T14:53:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T21:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=107801"},"modified":"2020-10-21T14:53:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T21:53:42","slug":"pompeos-visit-will-underscore-commitment-to-strong-partnership-with-sl-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/10\/21\/pompeos-visit-will-underscore-commitment-to-strong-partnership-with-sl-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo\u2019s visit will underscore commitment to strong partnership with SL: US"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The US Department of State today said Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo will travel to Colombo to underscore the commitment of the United States to a partnership with a strong, sovereign Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, Department\u2019s Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said, the visit will also advance our common goals of for a free and open Indo-Pacific region.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State Secretary Pompeo is scheduled to travel to India, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Indonesia from October 25 to 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In New Delhi, Secretary Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper and their Indian counterparts will lead the third annual US-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue to advance the US-India Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership and expand cooperation to promote stability and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific and the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secretary Pompeo will travel to Mal\u00e9 to reaffirm our close bilateral relationship and advance our partnership on issues ranging from regional maritime security to the fight against terrorism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Secretary will travel to Jakarta to deliver public remarks and meet with his Indonesian counterparts to affirm the two countries\u2019 vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific,\u201d Ortagus said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror The US Department of State today said Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo will travel to Colombo to underscore the commitment of the United States to a partnership with a strong, sovereign Sri Lanka. In a statement, Department\u2019s Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said, the visit will also advance our common goals of [&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-107801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107801","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=107801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}