{"id":110788,"date":"2021-01-18T17:01:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T00:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110788"},"modified":"2021-01-18T17:01:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T00:01:28","slug":"a-day-ahead-of-assuming-of-office-of-the-biden-administration-pathfinder-and-asia-society-to-co-host-a-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/18\/a-day-ahead-of-assuming-of-office-of-the-biden-administration-pathfinder-and-asia-society-to-co-host-a-dialogue\/","title":{"rendered":"A day ahead of assuming of office of the Biden Administration Pathfinder and Asia Society to co-host A dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Gamini Godakanda<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;dialog\nis expected to&nbsp;provide&nbsp;policy-makers of the two countries with a\nbetter\nappreciation&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;ground&nbsp;situation,challenges,&nbsp;opportunities&nbsp;and priorities that&nbsp;may&nbsp;affect\nthe Sri Lanka&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;US&nbsp; bilateral relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US\ndelegation will be led by Robert O. Blake Jr.,&nbsp;former&nbsp;Assistant\nSecretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs under the Obama\nAdminstration and former Ambassador to Sri Lanka,&nbsp;the Maldives&nbsp;and\nIndonesia. The Sri Lankan delegation will be&nbsp;headed&nbsp;by Bernard\nGoonetilleke, former Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary and Ambassador to the United\nStates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conclusions\nreached&nbsp;at the&nbsp;discussion will be presented to the two\ngovernments&nbsp;for consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamini Godakanda The&nbsp;dialog is expected to&nbsp;provide&nbsp;policy-makers of the two countries with a better appreciation&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;ground&nbsp;situation,challenges,&nbsp;opportunities&nbsp;and priorities that&nbsp;may&nbsp;affect the Sri Lanka&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;US&nbsp; bilateral relationship. The US delegation will be led by Robert O. Blake Jr.,&nbsp;former&nbsp;Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs under the Obama Adminstration and former Ambassador to Sri Lanka,&nbsp;the Maldives&nbsp;and Indonesia. The Sri [&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-110788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110788","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=110788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}