{"id":49335,"date":"2015-11-12T13:07:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T19:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=49335"},"modified":"2015-11-12T06:04:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T13:04:27","slug":"president-only-asked-to-look-at-possibilities-on-avant-grade-wijeyadasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/11\/12\/president-only-asked-to-look-at-possibilities-on-avant-grade-wijeyadasa\/","title":{"rendered":"President only asked to look at possibilities on Avant Grade: Wijeyadasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"inner-hd\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"row inner-text\">\n<p>Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said today that President Maithripala Sirisena had only instructed the respective authorities to find out the possibilities of handing over the operations of Avant- Garde to the Sri Lanka Navy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/media\/images\/Wijedasa_rajapaksa150x90.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Contradicting Minister Rajitha Senaratne\u2019s claims, Minister Rajapakshe, who also attended the meeting with the President, said that no specific instruction was given to revoke the agreement with the Avant Garde Company.<\/p>\n<p>The President only instructed the respective authorities to find out the agreement with the Avant Garde Company and the possibilities to hand over the operations to the Sri Lanka Navy,\u201d the minister said. <em><strong>(Sunil Jayasiri)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/95031\/president-only-asked-to-look-at-possibilities-on-avant-grade-wijeyadasa#sthash.wtcaIIcD.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said today that President Maithripala Sirisena had only instructed the respective authorities to find out the possibilities of handing over the operations of Avant- Garde to the Sri Lanka Navy. Contradicting Minister Rajitha Senaratne\u2019s claims, Minister Rajapakshe, who also attended the meeting with the President, said that [&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-49335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49335","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=49335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}