{"id":155005,"date":"2026-03-05T16:22:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=155005"},"modified":"2026-03-05T16:22:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:22:48","slug":"attack-on-iranian-ship-within-sri-lankas-exclusive-economic-zone-a-death-blow-to-sri-lankas-sovereignty-sajith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/03\/05\/attack-on-iranian-ship-within-sri-lankas-exclusive-economic-zone-a-death-blow-to-sri-lankas-sovereignty-sajith\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack on Iranian ship within Sri Lanka\u2019s Exclusive Economic Zone a death blow to Sri Lanka\u2019s sovereignty: Sajith"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-singapore-1.oraclecloud.com\/cdn.sg.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_216e73ec57.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colombo, March 5 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa said today that military action cannot be carried out within an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of a country according to international laws and that the attack on the Iranian warship within Sri Lanka&#8217;s Exclusive Economic Zone is a death blow to Sri Lanka&#8217;s sovereignty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He told Parliament that according to the United Nations Law of the Sea, principals of peaceful purposes and due regards must be adhered to when acting within an Exclusive Economic Zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Opposition Leader said killings, damages to environment and marine resources are against the international law.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Exclusive Economic Zone is for economic activities. It is not for military action,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, March 5 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa said today that military action cannot be carried out within an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of a country according to international laws and that the attack on the Iranian warship within Sri Lanka&#8217;s Exclusive Economic Zone is a death blow to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155005","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=155005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155006,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155005\/revisions\/155006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}