{"id":45818,"date":"2015-07-19T08:37:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T14:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=45818"},"modified":"2015-07-17T14:02:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T21:02:09","slug":"india-wanted-sri-lanka-to-stop-colombo-port-city-gotabaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/07\/19\/india-wanted-sri-lanka-to-stop-colombo-port-city-gotabaya\/","title":{"rendered":"India wanted Sri Lanka to stop Colombo Port City \u2013 Gotabaya"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa says that India\u2019s National Security Advisor had requested the former Sri Lankan government to stop the Chinese-funded Colombo Port City project as it would pose a threat to that country\u2019s security.<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa stated that when the BJP government of India came to power, it was his responsibility to meet and hold talks with his Indian counterpart &#8211; National Security Advisor, Ajit Doval.<\/p>\n<p>His primary request was to stop the (Colombo) Port City. If it was presented to our government, then it definitely must have been presented to this government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"India wanted Sri Lanka to stop Colombo Port City \u2013 Gotabaya\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kwwJzt0byhk?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><\/p>\n<p>The reason he gave was that the Port City was a threat to the security of India,\u201d the former Defence Secretary said, addressing a seminar on the topic of \u2018Mega development, the country\u2019s future and mega myths\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa said that the former government assured India\u2019s National Security Advisor that the Colombo Port City project would not pose a threat to India.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know how this government is facing such demands,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adaderana Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa says that India\u2019s National Security Advisor had requested the former Sri Lankan government to stop the Chinese-funded Colombo Port City project as it would pose a threat to that country\u2019s security. Rajapaksa stated that when the BJP government of India came to power, it was his responsibility to meet [&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-45818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45818","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=45818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}