{"id":121624,"date":"2021-12-29T17:01:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T00:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121624"},"modified":"2021-12-29T17:01:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T00:01:48","slug":"saudi-fund-for-development-pledges-continuous-support-for-sri-lankas-development-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/12\/29\/saudi-fund-for-development-pledges-continuous-support-for-sri-lankas-development-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Fund for Development Pledges Continuous Support for Sri Lanka\u2019s Development Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Unit<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>During a meeting\nwith Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning at Temple Trees, the CEO of the\nSaudi Fund for Development (SFD) Mr. Sultan Abdulrahman Al-Marshad expressed\ncontinuous support for implementing development projects in Sri Lanka. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister\nRajapaksa expressed his gratitude to SFD as well as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia\nfor the support extended to Sri Lanka for development projects as well as the\ncontinued close collaboration and friendship between the two governments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The very first\nproject initiated with support from SFD was the a water and sewage project in\n1981. Since then, during the past four decades, SFD has supported a number of\ndifferent development projects around the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the current\nvisit to Sri Lanka, the delegation from SFD participated in two project\nopenings. The groundbreaking ceremony of the Wayamba University Township\nDevelopment Project in Kuliyapitiya took place with the virtual participation\nof the Prime Minister. The second was the inaugural ceremony of the\nBibile-Chenkaladi Road section at Chenkaladi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In discussing\nfuture priorities, Prime Minister Rajapaksa requested SFD to consider projects\non minor irrigation, rural water supply and further road development,\nparticularly in rural areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Unit During a meeting with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning at Temple Trees, the CEO of the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) Mr. Sultan Abdulrahman Al-Marshad expressed continuous support for implementing development projects in Sri Lanka. Prime Minister Rajapaksa expressed his gratitude to SFD as well as the Kingdom of Saudi [&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-121624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121624","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=121624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}