{"id":110437,"date":"2021-01-06T16:40:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T23:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110437"},"modified":"2021-01-06T16:40:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T23:40:29","slug":"no-decision-to-handover-colombo-ports-eastern-terminal-to-a-foreign-entity-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/06\/no-decision-to-handover-colombo-ports-eastern-terminal-to-a-foreign-entity-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"No decision to handover Colombo Port\u2019s Eastern Terminal to a foreign entity &#8211; PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The government has taken no decision to transfer the management part of the ownership of the Eastern Terminal of the Colombo Port to a foreign entity, says Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister mentioned this in response to a question raised by Jathika Jana Balawegaya MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake in the Parliament today (06).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said, The previous Yahapalana government entered into agreements regarding the Eastern Terminal of the Colombo Port and I will table copies of those agreements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our government has not decided to hand over the management of this Eastern Terminal, in whole or in part, to a foreign company.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, in response, MP Dissanayake said, Now they are trying to build an argument that we have to do this because there is an old agreement. But it\u2019s not the old agreement; it has been proposed to reach a new agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The government has taken no decision to transfer the management part of the ownership of the Eastern Terminal of the Colombo Port to a foreign entity, says Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. The Prime Minister mentioned this in response to a question raised by Jathika Jana Balawegaya MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake in the Parliament [&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-110437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110437","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=110437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}