{"id":116998,"date":"2021-08-11T17:17:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T00:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=116998"},"modified":"2021-08-11T17:17:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T00:17:32","slug":"new-zealand-first-resident-high-commissioner-to-sri-lanka-calls-on-the-prime-minister-mahinda-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/11\/new-zealand-first-resident-high-commissioner-to-sri-lanka-calls-on-the-prime-minister-mahinda-rajapaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand first resident High Commissioner to Sri Lanka calls on the Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Unit<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>New Zealand first resident High Commissioner\nto Sri Lanka&nbsp; &#8211; Mr Michael Edward\nAppleton &#8211;&nbsp; together with Mr. Andrew\nTraveller the Deputy High Commissioner&nbsp;\ncalled on Hon. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this\nmorning (11th August 2021). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/adaderanaenglish.s3.amazonaws.com\/1628702092-pm-rajapaksa-new-zealand-high-commissioner.jpg\" alt=\"NZ\u2019s first resident High Commissioner to Sri Lanka calls on PM Rajapaksa\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ambassador conveyed his pleasure to be the\nNew Zealand first resident High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and expressed his\nkeen interest in growing collaboration between the both nations. As one of the\nworld&#8217;s largest milk producers, The Ambassador mentioned that New Zealand is\npleased to share dairy industry technology and know-how with Sri Lanka.\nReferring to his previous discussions with&nbsp;\nMr. Namal Rajapaksa, Sports Minister in Sri Lanka , the Ambassador&nbsp; is optimistic&nbsp;\non bridging the two nations through sports and games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanking for opportunity the Ambassador said\nhe is looking forward to working together with the Government to enhance\nbilateral relations with Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanking the Ambassador for the visit the\nPrime Minister stated that he is also looking forward to working together with\nthe Government of New Zealand to enhance the friendship between both nations\nand wished the Ambassador a very successful tenure in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. G. L. Peiris, Minister of Education,\nHon. Ajith Nivard Cabraal, State Minister of Finance, Capital Markets and State\nEnterprise Reforms and Mr. Yoshitha Rajapaksa, Chief of Staff of the Hon. Prime\nMinister and Mr Senaka Silva, former New Zealand Honorary Consulate in Sri\nLanka were also present at the meeting.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Unit New Zealand first resident High Commissioner to Sri Lanka&nbsp; &#8211; Mr Michael Edward Appleton &#8211;&nbsp; together with Mr. Andrew Traveller the Deputy High Commissioner&nbsp; called on Hon. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this morning (11th August 2021). The Ambassador conveyed his pleasure to be the New Zealand first resident [&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-116998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116998","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=116998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}