{"id":128787,"date":"2022-09-26T15:07:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T22:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=128787"},"modified":"2022-09-26T15:07:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T22:07:03","slug":"sri-lanka-to-purchase-oil-from-iran-on-government-to-government-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/09\/26\/sri-lanka-to-purchase-oil-from-iran-on-government-to-government-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka to purchase oil from Iran on government to government deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka is to purchase crude oil from Iran on a government to government deal, a Minister said today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foreign Minister Ali Sabry told Daily Mirror over the phone that he had a cordial discussion with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on the sidelines of the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister said crude oil purchase is one of the key areas discussed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We discussed a range of bilateral issues aimed at strengthening the cordial bilateral relationship,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian Minister has promised to instruct his country\u2019s ambassador in Colombo to follow up with the Sri Lankan line ministry to finalize the arrangements for crude oil imports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is better to purchase fuel from Iran on a government to government deal. Then, we can transact without intermediaries,\u201d Mr. Sabry added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trading with Iran is hampered because of US sanctions.&nbsp;<strong>(Kelum Bandara)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka is to purchase crude oil from Iran on a government to government deal, a Minister said today. Foreign Minister Ali Sabry told Daily Mirror over the phone that he had a cordial discussion with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on the sidelines of the 77th Session of the UN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128787","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=128787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}