{"id":140011,"date":"2024-01-26T14:31:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T21:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=140011"},"modified":"2024-01-26T14:31:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T21:31:29","slug":"sri-lankas-economy-suffered-due-to-politics-of-promises-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/01\/26\/sri-lankas-economy-suffered-due-to-politics-of-promises-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s economy suffered due to \u2018politics of promises\u2019 &#8211; President"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>President Ranil Wickremesinghe has urged all political parties to formulate a comprehensive plan for rebuilding the country, especially when gearing up for the elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing an event at the Sri Lanka Customs headquarters in Colombo this morning, the Head of State emphasized that the nation\u2019s economy has suffered due to the \u2018politics of promises\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event was organized to mark International Customs Day observed annually on January 26, the President\u2019s Media Division (PMD) said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, addressing the gathering, the President appealed to the political parties to unite for discussions with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on potential alternative proposals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also expressed his readiness to extend an invitation to IMF\u2019s Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva to visit Sri Lanka for this crucial dialogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has urged all political parties to formulate a comprehensive plan for rebuilding the country, especially when gearing up for the elections. Addressing an event at the Sri Lanka Customs headquarters in Colombo this morning, the Head of State emphasized that the nation\u2019s economy has suffered due to the \u2018politics of [&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-140011","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\/140011","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=140011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}