{"id":48166,"date":"2015-09-25T14:53:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T21:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=48166"},"modified":"2015-09-25T14:53:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T21:53:40","slug":"70th-session-of-unga-begins-president-takes-his-son-daham-to-the-united-nations-general-assembly-unga-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/09\/25\/70th-session-of-unga-begins-president-takes-his-son-daham-to-the-united-nations-general-assembly-unga-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"70th Session of UNGA begins, President takes his son Daham to the United Nations  General Assembly (UNGA) meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Yahapalana News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)\u00a0commenced today (Sep. 25) at the UN Headquarters in New York\u00a0with\u00a0President Sirisena and his son\u00a0Daham attending the meeting on behalf of Sri Lanka sitting\u00a0at the country&#8217;s podium with the other government officials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sirisenaatun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-48167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sirisenaatun-1024x573.jpg\" alt=\"sirisenaatun\" width=\"908\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sirisenaatun-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sirisenaatun-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sirisenaatun.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 908px) 100vw, 908px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The summit on Sustainable Development\u00a0was begun with the key note address by the Pope Francis.In his speech., Pope Francis urged the United States not to turn its back on undocumented immigrants, to reject the victimization of religious and ethnic minorities, to overcome income inequality and to save the planet from climate change, citing Scripture and the nation\u2019s founding ideals in a historic address to Congress Thursday. the pope decried the destruction of the environment through a &#8220;selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The environment itself has rights, and mankind has no authority to abuse them, said Francis, who hopes to spur concrete commitments at the upcoming climate-change negotiations in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>He demanded immediate access for the world&#8217;s poor to adequate food, water and housing, saying they have the right to lodging, labor and land.<\/p>\n<p>Francis&#8217; speech, delivered in his native Spanish, received repeated rounds of applause from an audience that included German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Bill and Melinda Gates, and Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousefzai, the young Pakistani activist shot and gravely wounded by the Taliban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahapalana News The 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)\u00a0commenced today (Sep. 25) at the UN Headquarters in New York\u00a0with\u00a0President Sirisena and his son\u00a0Daham attending the meeting on behalf of Sri Lanka sitting\u00a0at the country&#8217;s podium with the other government officials. The summit on Sustainable Development\u00a0was begun with the key note address by [&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-48166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48166","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=48166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}