{"id":138925,"date":"2023-12-12T17:31:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T00:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=138925"},"modified":"2023-12-12T17:31:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T00:31:08","slug":"state-minister-of-defence-meets-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-delegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/12\/12\/state-minister-of-defence-meets-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-delegation\/","title":{"rendered":"State Minister of Defence meets Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation\u00a0Delegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Ministry of Defence \u00a0&#8211; Media Centre<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Senior officials of the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) met with&nbsp; the State Minister of Defence in Sri Lanka Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon at his office in Colombo yesterday (Dec. 11).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon arrival, the delegation led by BMGF\u2019s&nbsp;Deputy Director for Emergency Response, Global Development&nbsp;Dr. Valerie Bemo was warmly received by the Minister of Defence and had a discussion on matters related to the launch of the Sustainable National Anticipatory Action through Preparedness&nbsp;initiative in South Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The delegation comprised of the BMGF\u2019s&nbsp;Senior Program Officer&nbsp;for Emergency Response, Global Development Ms. Pilar Pacheco, Director of Preparedness for Response and Recovery Dr Sisira Madurapperuma and Ms. Nirmala Fernando from Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BMGF has long supported disaster risk reduction initiatives in the region including several programs in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director General, Disaster Management Centre&nbsp;Sri Lanka Maj. Gen. Sudantha Ranasinghe (Retd)&nbsp;was also present at the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Defence \u00a0&#8211; Media Centre Senior officials of the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) met with&nbsp; the State Minister of Defence in Sri Lanka Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon at his office in Colombo yesterday (Dec. 11). Upon arrival, the delegation led by BMGF\u2019s&nbsp;Deputy Director for Emergency Response, Global Development&nbsp;Dr. Valerie Bemo was warmly [&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-138925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138925","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=138925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}