{"id":138539,"date":"2023-11-24T15:43:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T22:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=138539"},"modified":"2023-11-24T15:43:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T22:43:16","slug":"ranil-criticizes-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/11\/24\/ranil-criticizes-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranil criticizes India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-singapore-1.oraclecloud.com\/cdn.sg.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_837626f58a.jpg\">Colombo, Nov.24 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; President Ranil Wickremesinghe has slammed the Indian government for criticizing Sri Lanka at the United Nations over the issue of Sri Lankan Tamils. I don\u2019t agree with Indian comments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was surprised that India criticized our record,\u201d Wickremesinghe said during an exclusive interview with First post.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Admitting that Sri Lanka may become a battleground in the geopolitical power struggle between India and China, President Ranil Wickremesinghe assured that his country will not endanger the security of its South Asian neighbour.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It can happen in Sri Lankan politics. In 1988, Indian troops was a major issue,\u201d Wickremesinghe said. The issue of Chinese \u2018spy ships\u2019 visiting ports in Sri Lanka in the recent past had aroused security concerns in India. Wickremesinghe however, asserted that it will not have any negative effect on bilateral ties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India is worried about its own security. We Won\u2019t do anything to hurt India\u2019s security. We have told New Delhi that we will check on research ships. Sri Lanka is an independent country, why should our friendship depend on these issues?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Nov.24 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; President Ranil Wickremesinghe has slammed the Indian government for criticizing Sri Lanka at the United Nations over the issue of Sri Lankan Tamils. I don\u2019t agree with Indian comments.&nbsp; I was surprised that India criticized our record,\u201d Wickremesinghe said during an exclusive interview with First post.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-ranil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138539","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=138539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}