{"id":64530,"date":"2017-03-24T14:38:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T21:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=64530"},"modified":"2017-03-24T14:38:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T21:38:02","slug":"new-zealand-high-commission-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/03\/24\/new-zealand-high-commission-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand High Commission in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM, Spokesperson,United Sri Lanka Association, Wellington, New Zealand<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To.<br \/>\nRt. Hon. Bill English MP,<br \/>\nPrime Minister of New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Mr.English,<\/p>\n<p>We write \u00a0to convey the congratulations and delight of the Sri Lankan community in NZ, \u00a0at your announcing your decision to establish a High Commission in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>We have no doubt this will be mutually beneficial in improving trade and good will \u00a0between our two countries that share a similar outlook on many matters including trade, sport, travel and tourism, and our \u00a0democratic and secular way of life.<\/p>\n<p>We are also confident, the establishment of High Commissions between our two countries will enhance \u00a0activity in all of these areas for the good of both countries.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to take this opportunity to highlight that improving air access between our two countries \u00a0will significantly enhance the prospect of achieving all of these goals ,particularly trade and travel.<\/p>\n<p>Right now air access from New Zealand to Sri Lanka is via \u00a0Singapore, Malaysia or Hong Kong adding unnecessary distance \u00a0and time. The irony is that there are \u00a0five flights, four by Emirates air line and one by Qatar airlines that leave Auckland every night and flies over Sri Lanka and Colombo,on their way to their respective Middle East destinations. If \u00a0at least one of them could be persuaded to stop in Sri Lanka, this unnecessary time and distance \u00a0could be avoided at little additional cost, while also enhancing the returns for the airline.<\/p>\n<p>We urge you to explore achieving this as a part of your efforts to improve activity between our two countries.<\/p>\n<p>With our thanks and best wishes once again,<\/p>\n<p>Yours Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson,<\/p>\n<p>United Sri Lanka Association,<\/p>\n<p>Wellington,<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM, Spokesperson,United Sri Lanka Association, Wellington, New Zealand To. Rt. Hon. Bill English MP, Prime Minister of New Zealand. Dear Mr.English, We write \u00a0to convey the congratulations and delight of the Sri Lankan community in NZ, \u00a0at your announcing your decision to establish a High Commission in Sri Lanka. We have no [&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-64530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64530","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=64530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}