{"id":49304,"date":"2015-11-11T16:10:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T22:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=49304"},"modified":"2015-11-11T09:09:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T16:09:54","slug":"avant-garde-operations-handed-over-to-navy-rajitha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/11\/11\/avant-garde-operations-handed-over-to-navy-rajitha\/","title":{"rendered":"President Orders To Cancel All Deals With Avant Garde"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Sri Lanka News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>President Maithripala Sirisena instructed relevant Government officials today to cancel all deals with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Avant+Garde&amp;x=7&amp;y=3\">Avant Garde Maritime Services (Pvt) Ltd<\/a> and hand over the maritime security operations back to the Navy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Maithripala.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-147037\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Maithripala-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"Maithripala\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a>The President also instructed weapons on the floating armory operated by the Avant Garde to be handed back.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Rajitha Senaratne today said the President has ordered to hand over the operations of Avant Garde to the Sri Lanka Navy with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken at a meeting held with the participation of President Maithripala Sirisena this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police Chief N.K. Ilangakoon, Attorney General, Navy Commander, representatives from the Rakna Lanka, Ministers Rajitha Senaratne, Patali Champika Ranawaka and Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe participated in the discussion. &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>See more at: http:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/94967\/avant-garde-operations-handed-over-to-navy-rajitha#sthash.d5kfdu5T.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka News President Maithripala Sirisena instructed relevant Government officials today to cancel all deals with Avant Garde Maritime Services (Pvt) Ltd and hand over the maritime security operations back to the Navy. The President also instructed weapons on the floating armory operated by the Avant Garde to be handed back. Minister Rajitha Senaratne today [&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-49304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49304","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=49304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}