{"id":134700,"date":"2023-05-30T15:40:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T22:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=134700"},"modified":"2023-05-30T15:40:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T22:40:12","slug":"agreement-signed-to-extend-indias-1bn-credit-line-for-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/05\/30\/agreement-signed-to-extend-indias-1bn-credit-line-for-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Agreement signed to extend India\u2019s $1bn credit line for Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The signing of the agreement to extend the USD$ 1,000 million assistance scheme from India for the import of essential materials for a further period of one year has been carried out today (May 30), says Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a Twitter message, Minister Semasinghe has mentioned that the officials of the State Bank of India had participated in the event virtually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initial agreement was signed in 2022 March, the minister mentioned, adding that out of the 1,000 million US dollars allocated materials were imported for $ 576.75 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, the agreement has been extended for the remaining $ 423.25 million, he mentioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, the Finance Minister also stressed that the import of essential medicines will be prioritized until March 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The signing of the agreement to extend the USD$ 1,000 million assistance scheme from India for the import of essential materials for a further period of one year has been carried out today (May 30), says Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe. In a Twitter message, Minister Semasinghe has mentioned that the officials of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134700","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=134700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}