{"id":139681,"date":"2024-01-14T14:13:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T21:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=139681"},"modified":"2024-01-14T14:13:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T21:13:51","slug":"japan-wants-sri-lanka-to-settle-initial-part-spent-on-lrt-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/01\/14\/japan-wants-sri-lanka-to-settle-initial-part-spent-on-lrt-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan wants Sri Lanka to settle initial part spent on LRT project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><i>By<\/i>\u00a0<span class=\"a-profile\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/author\/YOHAN-PERERA\/593\"><i>YOHAN PERERA<\/i> <\/a><\/span><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><i><\/i><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, Jan 14 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; &nbsp;Japanese Minister &nbsp;of Finance &nbsp;Shun\u2019ichi Suzuki and his delegation informed Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa and SJB MPs that Sri Lanka should settle the amount which it has already spent on the initial part of the LRT project before its cancellation, SJB MP Harsha De Silva said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The visiting Japanese Minister had wanted the completion of the debt restructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had also said Sri Lanka should not jeopardise the IMF programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0YOHAN PERERA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Jan 14 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; &nbsp;Japanese Minister &nbsp;of Finance &nbsp;Shun\u2019ichi Suzuki and his delegation informed Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa and SJB MPs that Sri Lanka should settle the amount which it has already spent on the initial part of the LRT project before its cancellation, SJB MP Harsha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139681","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=139681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}