{"id":108740,"date":"2020-11-16T17:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T00:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=108740"},"modified":"2020-11-16T17:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T00:22:19","slug":"east-container-terminal-colombo-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/11\/16\/east-container-terminal-colombo-port\/","title":{"rendered":"East Container Terminal, Colombo port"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>RANJITH SOYSA <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Recently\n, the Minister Sarath Weersekera clarified the present Government\u2019s position\nabout the a rumour regarding the future of ECT which is being given prominence\nin social media criticising the President and the cabinet. The Minister should\nbe thanked as his response was timely and it quashed the one -sided anti\n-Government propaganda by interested parties,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\nsaid that the Memorandum of Corporation was signed by Yahaplanaya government\nwith India and Japan in 2019 when Sagala Ratanayake was the minister in charge\nof ports. The origin of the present issue of the 49% of the ownership of the\nECT will with India and Japan and the management of the ECT to&nbsp; be handed over to a well known Indian company\ncan be traced to the MOC signed by the previous government in&nbsp; 2019. Minister Weerasekera in his\nclarification also discusses the mishandling and the mismanagement of the ECT\nproject by the previous government which caused the delays of completing the\nECT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nMinister explains the difficulties involved in changing the conditions in the\nMOC which had been signed and clearly states that the present government does\nnot see eye to eye with the agreement and is considering to change some aspects\nwhich are disadvantageous to the country. He also mentions the fact that the\nPresident was forthright in conveying to US Secretary of State when he was in\nSri Lanka that the country will never accept agreements which are inimical to\nthe interest of the country with special reference to the MCC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nSri Lankans who voted the President and the present Government are confident\nthat the President and the decision makers such as the Minister Sarath\nWeeraskera will do their best to protect the sovereignty and the independence of\nthe country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RANJITH\nSOYSA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RANJITH SOYSA Recently , the Minister Sarath Weersekera clarified the present Government\u2019s position about the a rumour regarding the future of ECT which is being given prominence in social media criticising the President and the cabinet. The Minister should be thanked as his response was timely and it quashed the one -sided anti -Government propaganda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ranjith-soysa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108740","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=108740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}