{"id":136130,"date":"2023-08-05T16:17:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T23:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=136130"},"modified":"2023-08-05T16:17:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T23:17:32","slug":"iran-sri-lanka-agree-on-releasing-prisoners-in-near-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/08\/05\/iran-sri-lanka-agree-on-releasing-prisoners-in-near-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran, Sri Lanka agree on releasing prisoners in near future"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Mehr News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.mehrnews.com\/d\/2023\/08\/05\/3\/4619142.jpg?ts=1691236499785\" alt=\"Iran, Sri Lanka agree on releasing prisoners in near future \" title=\"Iran, Sri Lanka agree on releasing prisoners in near future \"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) \u2013 Iran and Sri Lanka agreed to take action regarding the release of prisoners of the two countries in a humane way in the near future, the Iranian Foreign Minister said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today the potential of the Asian continent has attracted the attention of the world powers, and Asian countries,&nbsp;Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in his joint presser with his Sri Lankan counterpart Ali Sabry on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asian countries should take advantage of dialogue and interaction in line with the interests of the nations, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In today&#8217;s meeting, we discussed a wide range of bilateral, regional, and international issues, including economic cooperation, trade and tourism development, and increasing cooperation in regional and international organizations,&#8221; he said, adding, the two sides enjoy a common political will to expand cultural, tourism, scientific cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We discussed the latest status of the previously signed documents between the two countries and also discussed agreements for signing more documents in the future,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The export of technical and engineering services, medical services and equipment, and new technologies in addition to&nbsp;cooperation in the fields of economy, tourism, and energy were among the issues of mutual interest between&nbsp;the Iranian and Sri Lankan diplomats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to&nbsp;Amir-Abdollahian, the two sides also discussed the issue of&nbsp;Iranian and Sri Lankan&nbsp;prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the agreements, the two sides&nbsp;agreed to&nbsp;take action regarding the release of&nbsp;release prisoners in the two countries in a humane way in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also said that the two sides stressed&nbsp;strengthening&nbsp;cooperation in the field of the fight against drug trafficking and human trafficking and other trafficking issues and trade ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Mehr News TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) \u2013 Iran and Sri Lanka agreed to take action regarding the release of prisoners of the two countries in a humane way in the near future, the Iranian Foreign Minister said Today the potential of the Asian continent has attracted the attention of the world powers, and Asian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judiciary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136130","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=136130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}