{"id":118374,"date":"2021-09-20T16:57:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T23:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=118374"},"modified":"2021-09-20T16:57:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T23:57:35","slug":"russia-and-sri-lankas-role-in-regional-security-at-the-moscow-conference-on-international-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/20\/russia-and-sri-lankas-role-in-regional-security-at-the-moscow-conference-on-international-security\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Russia and Sri Lanka\u2019s role in Regional Security\u2019 at the Moscow Conference on International Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Asanga Abeyagoonasekera<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong>Asanga\nAbeyagoonasekera speaks on \u2018Russia and Sri\nLanka\u2019s role in Regional Security\u2019 at the Moscow Conference on\nInternational Security<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, Author and foreign policy analyst was\ninvited from Sri Lanka for the IX Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS)\n2021. The conference was inaugurated by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez, Russian Defence\nMinister&nbsp;General of the Army Sergei Shoigu and Director of Federal\nSecurity Service Alexander Bortnikov. Mr. Abeyagoonasekera\u2019s\npresented a paper on <strong>\u2018Russia and Sri Lanka\u2019s role in Regional Security:\nPerspective from Sri Lanka\u2019. Among the distinguished presenters were <\/strong>Minister of Defence of India Nirmala Sitharaman, Defence of China Colonel General Wei\nFenghe, former President\nof&nbsp;Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, Senior Minister of State\nfor Defence of Singapore Heng Chee How, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the\nRussian Federation Sergei Lavrov and many others from around the world. From\nSri Lanka it was Secretary to Ministry of Defence (Ret.) Kamal Gunaratne and\nMr.Abeyagoonasekera who presented at the MCIS In 22-24 June 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eng.mil.ru\/en\/mcis\/speeches.htm\">https:\/\/eng.mil.ru\/en\/mcis\/speeches.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asanga Abeyagoonasekera Asanga Abeyagoonasekera speaks on \u2018Russia and Sri Lanka\u2019s role in Regional Security\u2019 at the Moscow Conference on International Security Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, Author and foreign policy analyst was invited from Sri Lanka for the IX Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS) 2021. The conference was inaugurated by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, [&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-118374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118374","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=118374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}