{"id":148018,"date":"2025-02-14T16:58:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T23:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=148018"},"modified":"2025-02-14T16:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T23:58:46","slug":"slpp-meets-julie-chung-discusses-usaid-funding-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/02\/14\/slpp-meets-julie-chung-discusses-usaid-funding-to-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"SLPP meets Julie Chung: Discusses USAID funding to Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"glightbox h6 inner_other\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/author\/AJITH-SIRIWARDANA\/126\">AJITH SIRIWARDANA\u00a0 <\/a>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, Feb 14 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) briefed U.S. Ambassador Julie Chung on the SLPP\u2019s proposal for a Parliamentary Select Committee to investigate into the use of USAID funds by both registered and unregistered NGOs in Sri Lanka, with a focus on ensuring transparency in the allocation of U.S. taxpayer resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SLPP made these remarks during a meeting with Ambassordor Chung and SLPP representatives inluding Namal Rajapaksa at the SLPP Headquarters today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Julie Chung meets representatives of SLPP\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z19tb8LQT1E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It was a pleasure welcoming U.S. Ambassador Julie Chung to the SLPP Headquarters today. We engaged in discussions of mutual interest and reaffirmed the SLPP\u2019s dedication to strengthening the bilateral relationships between the U.S. and Sri Lanka. We commend the non-interference foreign policy upheld by U.S. President Donald Trump and his call for greater transparency in the use of taxpayer funds,&#8221; Rajapaksa said in a post on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the SLPP looks forward to collaborating closely with the new U.S. administration for the mutual benefit of both countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AJITH SIRIWARDANA\u00a0 Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb 14 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) briefed U.S. Ambassador Julie Chung on the SLPP\u2019s proposal for a Parliamentary Select Committee to investigate into the use of USAID funds by both registered and unregistered NGOs in Sri Lanka, with a focus on ensuring transparency in [&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-148018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148018","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=148018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}