{"id":121912,"date":"2022-01-08T15:13:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T22:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121912"},"modified":"2022-01-08T15:13:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T22:13:49","slug":"chinese-foreign-minister-on-official-visit-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/08\/chinese-foreign-minister-on-official-visit-to-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese foreign minister on official visit to Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>China\u2019s Foreign Minister and State Councillor, Wang Yi arrived in Sri Lanka this evening (January 08) on a two-day official visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accompanied by a delegation of 18 Chinese officials, Minister Wang Yi reached the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake at around 8.20 p.m. via B-8415, a flight belonging to a Chinese carrier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon his arrival, Minister Wang Yi was accorded a warm welcome by Minister of Youth &amp; Sports Namal Rajapaksa, and State Minister of Aviation &amp; Export Zones Development D.V. Chanaka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Wang Yi will inaugurate the celebration of the 65th Anniversary of China-Sri Lanka diplomatic relations during his visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chinese foreign minister is also expected to present a number of investment proposals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Embassy of China in Sri Lanka, Colombo is the last stop of Mr. Wang Yi\u2019s first foreign visit in the new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana China\u2019s Foreign Minister and State Councillor, Wang Yi arrived in Sri Lanka this evening (January 08) on a two-day official visit. Accompanied by a delegation of 18 Chinese officials, Minister Wang Yi reached the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake at around 8.20 p.m. via B-8415, a flight belonging to a Chinese carrier. [&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-121912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121912","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=121912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}