{"id":126556,"date":"2022-06-29T03:43:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T10:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=126556"},"modified":"2022-06-29T03:43:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T10:43:34","slug":"a-note-to-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/06\/29\/a-note-to-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"A note to the President"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>RANJITH SOYSA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The president Gotabaya should pick up his phone and call President Putin and request urgently the long term assistance&nbsp; from Russia to stabilize the fuel and gas supply. Sending of junior minister will not achieve the desired results as the&nbsp; dealing with a super power should follow the accepted method of diplomacy&nbsp; through the state to the state. The President. Gotabaya&nbsp; is well aware of the fact that Russia stood by Sri Lanka when he was the Secretary of Defense in protecting Sri Lanka at<br>UN and for UNHCR&nbsp; from the devious agenda of some of the Western countries who were attempting to corner Sri Lanka,<br><br>The President should request Russia to consider approval&nbsp; for a long term fuel and gas supply and also refurbishing the Sapugaskanda&nbsp; oil refinery, the maintenance of which has become problematic, In fact, there was a Russian proposal which was overlooked&nbsp; by past governments. If the refinery is upgraded Sri Lanka will have a good supply of oil and also&nbsp; fertilizer.<br><br>If there is an issue with the West and the IMF regarding our decision to seek help from Russia, the Prime Minister and&nbsp; the Governor should be requested to explain the plight of the nation due to constant- weekly- shortages of oil and gas rendering the economy- agriculture. industries educational and health services and transposition-to crumble.&nbsp; The mass scale social unrest has resulted in the breach of peace,<br><br>If the President, is reluctant to make a positive move,&nbsp; Sri Lankan people should emulate the goodwill message sent&nbsp; to Australia in cricket through exhibiting of posters and placards at street corners and every petrol and gas station saying&nbsp; &#8221; The President. call Mr Putin NOW for oil and gas &#8220;<br><br>RANJITH SOYSA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RANJITH SOYSA The president Gotabaya should pick up his phone and call President Putin and request urgently the long term assistance&nbsp; from Russia to stabilize the fuel and gas supply. Sending of junior minister will not achieve the desired results as the&nbsp; dealing with a super power should follow the accepted method of diplomacy&nbsp; through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ranjith-soysa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126556","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=126556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}