{"id":53163,"date":"2016-03-22T14:13:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T20:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=53163"},"modified":"2016-03-22T07:14:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T14:14:52","slug":"uk-snubs-sri-lanka-over-visa-requests-for-daham-sirisena-president-orders-news-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/03\/22\/uk-snubs-sri-lanka-over-visa-requests-for-daham-sirisena-president-orders-news-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Snubs Sri Lanka Over Visa Requests For President Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s son Daham Sirisena – President Orders News Blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sri Lanka Diplomatic News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n
Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chitranganee Wagiswara summoned Laura Davies, Deputy UK High Commissioner in Sri Lanka \u00a0to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today\u00a0to lodge a strong protest on behalf of the government and the President as to why the request of President Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s son Daham<\/a> and his three friends to travel to UK was subject to long delays. In Return. this personal \u00a0protest received the biggest diplomatic\u00a0snub and a strong telling off from UK officials.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Deputy UK High Commissioner in Sri Lanka, Ms Laura Davies has challenged the Sri Lanka government\u2019s claim and emphasised the proper procedures have not been followed. At first, Daham Sirisena\u2019s application together with the ones from his friends have been sent to the British High Commission with only a request note by the Chief of Protocol M.R. Hassen. It was only after they asked for documentation some were forwarded.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Besides, One applicant had been debarred from entering the United Kingdom five years ago for forwarding false documentation. The British diplomat has said it was not the right of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to demand visas for third parties without proper documentation in keeping with UK laws.The issue of visas were at the sole discretion of the UK government.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Meanwhile President\u00a0Sirisena<\/a>, who speaks of press freedom, apparently telephoned newspaper editors and proprietors to request them not to print any news report in this regard as he\u00a0\u00a0was unaware about the son\u2019s matter.<\/div>\n
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However,the \u00a0President Sirisena told a meeting of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress in Kalmunai this week that there was media freedom in Sri Lanka now and the media could report on anything without fear or favour.\u00a0There is no difference between the present and the past governments\u00a0\u00a0and he himself is responsible for\u00a0 preventing the wrong doings of his son being exposed. \u00a0In fact President Sirisena is turning out to be much worst in suppressing adverse news about him and his family.<\/div>\n
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Sri Lanka Diplomatic News Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chitranganee Wagiswara summoned Laura Davies, Deputy UK High Commissioner in Sri Lanka \u00a0to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today\u00a0to lodge a strong protest on behalf of the government and the President as to why the request of President Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s son Daham and his […]<\/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-53163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53163","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=53163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}