{"id":139879,"date":"2024-01-20T15:58:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T22:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=139879"},"modified":"2024-01-20T15:58:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T22:58:30","slug":"changing-agreement-with-imf-under-opposition-leaders-government-a-mere-slogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/01\/20\/changing-agreement-with-imf-under-opposition-leaders-government-a-mere-slogan\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing agreement with IMF under Opposition leader\u2019s government a mere slogan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/author\/CHATURANGA-PRADEEP-SAMARAWICKRAMA\/88\">\u00a0<\/a>By\u00a0<span class=\"a-profile\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/author\/CHATURANGA-PRADEEP-SAMARAWICKRAMA\/88\">CHATURANGA PRADEEP SAMARAWICKRAMA Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Avissawella, Jan 20 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; statement made by the Opposition Leader about changing the agreement by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with Sri Lanka is a mere slogan, Finance State Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the Opposition Leader had made a statement that he will change the agreement with the IMF under his government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, everyone should act responsibly at this time, the Minister said at a meeting in Avissawella today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;At a time when the country was in trouble, the agreement made with the financial fund did good and not bad for the country and the economy,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, such statements are made for the sake of popularity and do not bring any good to the country, the Minister added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0By\u00a0CHATURANGA PRADEEP SAMARAWICKRAMA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Avissawella, Jan 20 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; statement made by the Opposition Leader about changing the agreement by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with Sri Lanka is a mere slogan, Finance State Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said. He said the Opposition Leader had made a statement that he will change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imf-bailout-package"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139879","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=139879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}