{"id":53945,"date":"2016-04-20T21:18:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T03:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=53945"},"modified":"2016-04-20T13:31:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T20:31:49","slug":"india-sri-lanka-agreement-was-proposed-by-ranil-says-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/04\/20\/india-sri-lanka-agreement-was-proposed-by-ranil-says-envoy\/","title":{"rendered":"India-Sri Lanka agreement was proposed by Ranil says envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy\u00a0<\/strong>Tamil Guardian 23 March 2016<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

India\u2019s High Commissioner Y K Sinha told reporters that a proposed economic agreement between India and Sri Lanka was proposed by Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, as Sinhala opposition to the move continues.<\/p>\n

Mr Sinha told reporters<\/a> that the Economic and Technology Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) proposal was put forward last year and defended the move.<\/p>\n

The ETCA was proposed by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe when he went to India September last year,\u201d Mr Sinha said. Since then our officials have met and now just a few days ago, we have got a draft of the framework, which is the outline of the agreement from the government of Sri Lanka.\u201d<\/p>\n

The proposal came after Sri Lanka repeatedly rejected moves to sign a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with India, which Mr Sinha said<\/a> is [now] a dirty word here\u201d.<\/p>\n

He went on to assure that the agreement would benefit “the people of both countries” amidst sustained opposition to the proposal.<\/p>\n

Amongst those opposed is Sri Lanka\u2019s former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Joint Opposition, who slammed the agreement earlier this month. Mr Sinha however, responded by saying his comments were amusing\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe meanwhile told reporters previously that those opposed to the ECTA are traitors\u201d. The prime minister has faced strong opposition to signing a bi-lateral trade agreement with India and enhancing further trade ties with the neighbouring nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy\u00a0Tamil Guardian 23 March 2016 India\u2019s High Commissioner Y K Sinha told reporters that a proposed economic agreement between India and Sri Lanka was proposed by Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, as Sinhala opposition to the move continues. Mr Sinha told reporters that the Economic and Technology Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) proposal was put forward […]<\/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-53945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53945","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=53945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}