{"id":121398,"date":"2021-12-22T16:59:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T23:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121398"},"modified":"2021-12-22T16:59:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T23:59:53","slug":"iran-sri-lanka-sign-agreement-in-colombo-to-settle-oil-debt-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/12\/22\/iran-sri-lanka-sign-agreement-in-colombo-to-settle-oil-debt-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran, Sri Lanka sign agreement in Colombo to settle oil debt issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Islamic Republic News Agency<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img9.irna.ir\/d\/r2\/2021\/12\/22\/4\/169297793.jpg?ts=1640156343038\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img9.irna.ir\/d\/r2\/2021\/12\/22\/4\/169297793.jpg?ts=1640156343038\" alt=\"Iran, Sri Lanka sign agreement in Colombo to settle oil debt issue\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tehran, IRNA \u2013 Iran and Sari Lanka have signed an agreement on working out ways to settle the latter&#8217;s oil debt to Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chairman of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran Ali-Reza Peimanpaak and minister of trade of Sari Lanka signed the agreement in a meeting, according to the Wednesday report of Iran&#8217;s Embassy in Colombo, the commercial capital of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peimanpaak, who is also a deputy for the Ministry&nbsp;of Industry, Mines and Trade, arrived in Colombo early on Monday as his first trade destination to East Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on mutual agreement, Sri Lanka will monthly export tea to Iran to repay parts of its oil debt to the country, Peimanpaak underlined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The issue of Sri Lanka&#8217;s oil debts to Iran remained unsolved for years until the visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his stay in Sri Lanka, Peimanpaak held talks with several officials there and reviewed ways to develop economy and make use of the existing opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Islamic Republic News Agency Tehran, IRNA \u2013 Iran and Sari Lanka have signed an agreement on working out ways to settle the latter&#8217;s oil debt to Iran. Chairman of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran Ali-Reza Peimanpaak and minister of trade of Sari Lanka signed the agreement in a meeting, according to the Wednesday report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121398","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=121398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}