{"id":112277,"date":"2021-03-03T17:27:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=112277"},"modified":"2021-03-03T17:27:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:27:52","slug":"indias-chief-of-the-air-staff-pledges-continued-support-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/03\/03\/indias-chief-of-the-air-staff-pledges-continued-support-to-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Chief of the Air Staff Pledges Continued Support to Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Unit<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong>March 3, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force\nAir Chief Marshall Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria called on Prime Minister\nMahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this evening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Air Chief Marshall, who is visiting Sri Lanka to\nattend the 70th Anniversary Celebrations of the Sri Lanka Air Force, expressed\ncontinued support to Sri Lanka in the defense sector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka and India have had a long-standing defense\nand security cooperation that has spanned many areas including\ncounter-terrorism, maritime security and drug trafficking. India\u2019s Air Force\nhas also supported Sri Lanka with training officers at various levels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noting that there are areas in which the two defense\nsectors of both countries could further expand the cooperation, the visiting\nAir Chief Marshall told Prime Minister Rajapaksa that India\u2019s Air Force stands\nready to support Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Unit March 3, 2021 The Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force Air Chief Marshall Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria called on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this evening. The Air Chief Marshall, who is visiting Sri Lanka to attend the 70th Anniversary Celebrations of the Sri Lanka [&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-112277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112277","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=112277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}