{"id":135683,"date":"2023-07-17T17:21:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T00:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=135683"},"modified":"2023-07-17T17:21:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T00:21:15","slug":"pm-thanks-sri-lanka-for-helping-clinch-imf-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/07\/17\/pm-thanks-sri-lanka-for-helping-clinch-imf-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"PM thanks Sri Lanka for helping clinch IMF deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Pakistan Observer<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday expressed his gratitude to Sri Lanka for supporting and helping Pakistan in reaching an agreement with the International Monetary Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a telephonic conversation with Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, PM Shehbaz acknowledged the role played by Sri Lanka as a friend and well-wisher of Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PM said both Islamabad and Colombo are close and reliable friends and commended the island nation\u2019s role in regional peace and prosperity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PM Shehbaz also expressed confidence that the two nations will soon come out of the vortex of current economic difficulties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reciprocating the PM\u2019s sentiments of goodwill, the Sri Lankan president said Pakistan is a close friend and helping friends is friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wickremesinghe appreciated Shehbaz\u2019s efforts in steering the country out of a difficult situation and felicitated him on reaching an agreement with the IMF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the occasion of PM Shehbaz\u2019s meeting with Managing Director IMF Kristalina Georgieva, the Sri Lankan President stressed that the IMF should help Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sri Lankan president had informed the MD IMF about the problems faced by his country due to default and stressed that Pakistan should be saved from this situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Pakistan Observer Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday expressed his gratitude to Sri Lanka for supporting and helping Pakistan in reaching an agreement with the International Monetary Fund. During a telephonic conversation with Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, PM Shehbaz acknowledged the role played by Sri Lanka as a friend and well-wisher of Pakistan. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135683","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=135683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}