{"id":48118,"date":"2015-09-25T14:44:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T20:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=48118"},"modified":"2015-09-24T14:47:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T21:47:46","slug":"president-maithriplala-arrived-in-new-york-in-nepalese-national-costume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/09\/25\/president-maithriplala-arrived-in-new-york-in-nepalese-national-costume\/","title":{"rendered":"President Maithriplala arrived in New York in Nepalese National Costume"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Yahapalanaya News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>President Maithripala Sirisena arrived in New York on the morning of Thursday, September 24,to attend the 70th sessions of the United Nations General Assembly and was welcomed by a group which included Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera and the Sri Lankan Ambassadors in Washington D.C. and New York. <strong>Throughout the presidential election, Sirisena&#8217;s choice of attire made headlines and this time Looks like he had given up his signature vest of\u00a0<em>Modi\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0kurta and opted out for Nepalese National costume.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sirisenainnewyork4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-48122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sirisenainnewyork4.jpg\" alt=\"Sirisenainnewyork4\" width=\"749\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sirisenainnewyork4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sirisenainnewyork4-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sirisenainnewyork2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-48120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sirisenainnewyork2.jpg\" alt=\"Sirisenainnewyork2\" width=\"689\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sirisenainnewyork2.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sirisenainnewyork2-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Sirisena and his delegation is set to take part in the opening ceremony of the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Friday,September 25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sirisenainnewyork3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-48121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sirisenainnewyork3.jpg\" alt=\"Sirisenainnewyork3\" width=\"702\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sirisenainnewyork3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sirisenainnewyork3-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahapalanaya News President Maithripala Sirisena arrived in New York on the morning of Thursday, September 24,to attend the 70th sessions of the United Nations General Assembly and was welcomed by a group which included Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera and the Sri Lankan Ambassadors in Washington D.C. and New York. Throughout the presidential election, Sirisena&#8217;s choice [&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-48118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48118","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=48118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}