{"id":64227,"date":"2017-03-16T15:11:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T22:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=64227"},"modified":"2017-03-16T15:11:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T22:11:02","slug":"sri-lanka-appoints-first-honorary-consul-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/03\/16\/sri-lanka-appoints-first-honorary-consul-in-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"SRI LANKA APPOINTS FIRST HONORARY CONSUL IN PENNSYLVANIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington D.C.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam today handed over the Commission of Appointment to David Bruce Sherman as Sri Lanka\u2019s Honorary Consul in the state of Pennsylvania. He is the first Honorary Consul of Sri Lanka in that state.<\/p>\n<p>The Ambassador observed that at a time when Sri Lanka is expanding its bilateral partnership with the United States, the long years of experience, professional calibre and commitment of the newly appointed Honorary Consul will serve to strengthen Sri Lanka\u2019s representation in the United States.\u00a0 Honorary Consul Sherman expressed his desire to foster business and cultural contacts with Sri Lanka and to promote greater awareness of the many splendours of Sri Lanka in his state.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64228\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/HONORARY-CONSUL-PENNSYLVANIA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/HONORARY-CONSUL-PENNSYLVANIA.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/HONORARY-CONSUL-PENNSYLVANIA-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A well-respected lawyer and an owner and founding member of the law firm Solomon, Sherman and Gabay, David Bruce Sherman has been selected consecutively as one of the top 100 Super Lawyers in Pennsylvania. During his illustrious career, he has developed a vast network of relationships with the legal, business and medical communities of the greater Philadelphia area.<\/p>\n<p>Honorary Consul David Sherman is expected to play an important role in enhancing commercial, cultural and people to people ties between Pennsylvania and Sri Lanka, and in promoting Sri Lanka as an attractive travel destination to fellow Pennsylvanians.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64229\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/HONORARY-CONSUL-PENNSYLVANIA-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/HONORARY-CONSUL-PENNSYLVANIA-2.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/HONORARY-CONSUL-PENNSYLVANIA-2-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Embassy of Sri Lanka<\/p>\n<p>Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>March 15, 2017<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington D.C. Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam today handed over the Commission of Appointment to David Bruce Sherman as Sri Lanka\u2019s Honorary Consul in the state of Pennsylvania. He is the first Honorary Consul of Sri Lanka in that state. The Ambassador observed that at a time when Sri Lanka is expanding its [&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-64227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64227","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=64227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}