{"id":63943,"date":"2017-03-05T15:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=63943"},"modified":"2017-03-05T15:17:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T22:17:00","slug":"sri-lanka-has-never-taken-such-a-humiliating-stance-dayan-jayatilleka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/03\/05\/sri-lanka-has-never-taken-such-a-humiliating-stance-dayan-jayatilleka\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka has never taken such a \u2018humiliating\u2019 stance \u2013 Dayan Jayatilleka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"newsDateStamp\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By Yusuf Ariff\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"newsDateStamp\">March 4, 2017\u00a0\u00a007:43 pm<\/p>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>Former Sri Lankan diplomat Dr Dayan Jayatilleka today charged that Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera that has declared to the entire world that Sri Lanka is a \u2018failed state\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The former Sri Lankan Ambassador to the UN in Geneva was referring to the foreign minister\u2019s recent speech at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, during which he had said that the country\u2019s attempts at nation building after gaining self-determination from British rule has failed.<\/p>\n<p>In my lifetime, Sri Lanka has never taken such a humiliating stance anywhere in the world,\u201d Dr Jayatilleka said, while speaking during the annual convention of \u2018Viyathmaga &#8211; Professionals for Better Future\u2019 in Colombo on Saturday (4).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa while speaking at the event stressed that he would not intend to take a post in a future government.<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa also pointed out the state officials should be given the freedom to take decisions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/39413\/sri-lanka-has-never-taken-such-a-humiliating-stance-dayan-jayatilleka#sthash.DVsHa8tt.dpuf<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sri Lanka has never taken such a \u2018humiliating\u2019 stance - Dayan Jayatilleka\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4FAhl7P1jmc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yusuf Ariff\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana March 4, 2017\u00a0\u00a007:43 pm Former Sri Lankan diplomat Dr Dayan Jayatilleka today charged that Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera that has declared to the entire world that Sri Lanka is a \u2018failed state\u2019. The former Sri Lankan Ambassador to the UN in Geneva was referring to the foreign minister\u2019s recent speech at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-terrorism","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63943","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=63943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}