{"id":64525,"date":"2017-03-24T14:31:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T21:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=64525"},"modified":"2017-03-24T14:32:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T21:32:27","slug":"u-s-congress-members-signal-greater-engagement-and-support-for-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/03\/24\/u-s-congress-members-signal-greater-engagement-and-support-for-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. CONGRESS MEMBERS SIGNAL GREATER ENGAGEMENT AND SUPPORT FOR SRI LANKA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington D.C.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

March 24, 2017<\/p>\n

In the month of February, two congressional delegations of U.S. House of Representatives visited Sri Lanka.\u00a0 The first was a bipartisan four-member delegation of the House Democracy Partnership (HDP) Committee led by Chairman Peter Roskam and Ranking Member David Price.\u00a0 An eight-member bipartisan delegation led by the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert Goodlatte immediately followed.<\/p>\n

Following up on the manifest greater engagement by the members of the U.S. Congress with Sri Lanka, Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam met with several leading members of the U.S. Congress in the past week.<\/p>\n

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The Ambassador had fruitful discussions with the leadership of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce and Chairman Ted Yoho of the House Asia and the Pacific Subcommittee. He met with Congressman David Price, the Ranking Member of the House Democracy Partnership, in follow up to his visit to Sri Lanka for promoting\u00a0deeper partnership with the HDP.\u00a0 The Ambassador also called on the Senator Chris Van Hollen, the newly appointed Senator for Maryland.<\/p>\n

The Ambassador briefed the members of Congress on the progress made by the Unity Government in advancing good governance, the rule of law, political and economic reforms and reconciliation. Discussions centered on working towards expanding the partnership between the two countries in multiple spheres of cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington D.C. March 24, 2017 In the month of February, two congressional delegations of U.S. House of Representatives visited Sri Lanka.\u00a0 The first was a bipartisan four-member delegation of the House Democracy Partnership (HDP) Committee led by Chairman Peter Roskam and Ranking Member David Price.\u00a0 An eight-member bipartisan delegation led by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64525","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=64525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}