{"id":42076,"date":"2015-03-07T03:40:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T10:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=42076"},"modified":"2015-03-07T05:17:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T12:17:14","slug":"sirisena-takes-award-winning-diplomat-dr-chris-nonis-as-protocol-adviserinterpreter-on-his-three-day-official-visit-to-united-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/03\/07\/sirisena-takes-award-winning-diplomat-dr-chris-nonis-as-protocol-adviserinterpreter-on-his-three-day-official-visit-to-united-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirisena takes award winning diplomat Dr Chris Nonis as protocol adviser\/interpreter on his three-day official visit to United Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Yak<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">(h)<\/span>apalanaya news<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>A former village headman who suddenly became the president of Sri Lanka on a Western\/Indian inspired regime change plot, hurriedly appointed Former Sri Lankan High Commissioner to UK Dr Chris Nonis, an award winning diplomat in UK, as the protocol adviser and the interpreter after realising that he had neither sufficient knowledge in English nor knowledge in diplomatic protocol that he has to follow strictly in the very conservative British society and accompanied him today when he left for the United Kingdom on a three-day official visit.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Nonis received his hurriedly drafted letter of appointment from President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat last evening(Friday).<\/p>\n<p>Qualified in London, with a First Class Honours BSc from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Dr. Nonis obtained his MBBS from the Royal Free Hospital Medical School, University of London, having spent his electives at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.<\/p>\n<p>He carried out his postgraduate training at Royal Brompton, Hammersmith, and Addenbrooke\u2019s, Cambridge and is a member of the Royal College of Physicians (UK).<\/p>\n<p>He has been actively involved in Commonwealth and International Affairs, and is Deputy-Chairman of the Royal Commonwealth Society, London; Board Member of the Ramphal Centre for Commonwealth Policy Studies, UK; and Board Member of the Commonwealth Business Council.<\/p>\n<p>President Sirisena, as the Chair-in-Office of the Commonwealth, will attend the Commonwealth Day Observances on 9th March, according to the International Media Unit of the President\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>The day is marked by a range of activities, including a multi-faith Observance at Westminster Abbey in London, UK, followed by a reception hosted by the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Mr. Kamalesh Sharma.<\/p>\n<p>The Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh will attend the event.<\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) meeting will also take place on the 12th March.<\/p>\n<p>In his three-day official visit to UK, President Sirisena is expected to hold talks with the British Prime Minister Mr. David Cameron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yak(h)apalanaya news A former village headman who suddenly became the president of Sri Lanka on a Western\/Indian inspired regime change plot, hurriedly appointed Former Sri Lankan High Commissioner to UK Dr Chris Nonis, an award winning diplomat in UK, as the protocol adviser and the interpreter after realising that he had neither sufficient knowledge in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42076","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=42076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}