{"id":139677,"date":"2024-01-14T13:59:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T20:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=139677"},"modified":"2024-01-14T13:59:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T20:59:52","slug":"new-indian-high-commissioner-santosh-jha-meets-former-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/01\/14\/new-indian-high-commissioner-santosh-jha-meets-former-president\/","title":{"rendered":"New Indian High Commissioner Santosh Jha meets former President"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/adaderanaenglish.s3.amazonaws.com\/1705234870-santhosh-jha-mahinda-6.jpg\" alt=\"New Indian High Commissioner Santosh Jha meets former President\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Newly-appointed Indian High Commissioner Santosh Jha on Saturday met Sri Lanka\u2019s former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and discussed New Delhi\u2019s consistent support to Colombo over the last several decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High Commissioner @santjha met former President @PresRajapaksa and discussed Sri Lanka\u2019s age-old relationship with India, as well as India\u2019s consistent support to Sri Lanka over last several decades as a close friend and neighbour,\u201d the Indian High Commission said in a post on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jha assumed charge as the High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka in December 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A senior Indian diplomat, Jha was India\u2019s Ambassador to the European Union, Belgium and Luxembourg before taking up his assignment in Colombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jha had also served in Colombo from 2007-2010 as Counsellor at the High Commission, handling work related to commercial and economic matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recalling his previous stint in Sri Lanka, Jha said that he considers it a great privilege to be in Colombo once again to work for further strengthening bilateral friendship and cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajapaksa and his family were ousted from power during anti-government protests in the island nation following an economic crisis in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: PTI<\/strong><br><em>&#8211;Agencies<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Newly-appointed Indian High Commissioner Santosh Jha on Saturday met Sri Lanka\u2019s former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and discussed New Delhi\u2019s consistent support to Colombo over the last several decades. High Commissioner @santjha met former President @PresRajapaksa and discussed Sri Lanka\u2019s age-old relationship with India, as well as India\u2019s consistent support to Sri Lanka over [&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-139677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139677","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=139677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}