{"id":122735,"date":"2022-02-12T16:23:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T23:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122735"},"modified":"2022-02-12T16:23:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T23:23:01","slug":"sri-lanka-india-ties-at-high-point-concerns-about-chinese-presence-in-country-consigned-to-past-g-l-peiris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/02\/12\/sri-lanka-india-ties-at-high-point-concerns-about-chinese-presence-in-country-consigned-to-past-g-l-peiris\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka-India ties at high point, concerns about Chinese presence in country \u2018consigned to past\u2019: G L Peiris"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Written by\u00a0<a id=\"written_by1\" class=\"bulletProj\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/profile\/columnist\/nirupama-subramanian\/\">Nirupama Subramanian<\/a> Courtesy The Indian Express<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Peiris said the fishermen&#8217;s issue \u2013 Indian fishermen trespassing in Sri Lankan waters and getting arrested \u2013 was now a serious\u201d flashpoint in ties with India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/02\/G-L-Peiris.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s foreign minister G L Peiris with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. (PTI\/File)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview to&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/\" class=\"\">The Indian Express<\/a><\/em>, Sri Lanka\u2019s foreign minister G L Peiris, who was in Delhi from February 6-8, said India and Sri Lanka had reached a high point in their relations, and that concerns about the Chinese presence in his country had been consigned to the past\u201d. Peiris said the fishermen\u2019s issue \u2013 Indian fishermen trespassing in Sri Lankan waters and getting arrested \u2013 was now a serious\u201d flashpoint in ties with India. He blamed the Tamil National Alliance for the hiatus\u201d in the implementation of the 13th Amendment because of its support to the previous Maithripala Sirisena government\u2019s decision to change electoral laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by\u00a0Nirupama Subramanian Courtesy The Indian Express Peiris said the fishermen&#8217;s issue \u2013 Indian fishermen trespassing in Sri Lankan waters and getting arrested \u2013 was now a serious\u201d flashpoint in ties with India. Sri Lanka&#8217;s foreign minister G L Peiris with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. (PTI\/File) In an interview to&nbsp;The Indian Express, Sri Lanka\u2019s [&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-122735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122735","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=122735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}