{"id":65556,"date":"2017-04-26T17:01:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T00:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=65556"},"modified":"2017-04-26T17:01:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T00:01:29","slug":"forex-bill-similar-to-what-solheim-envisaged-jo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/04\/26\/forex-bill-similar-to-what-solheim-envisaged-jo\/","title":{"rendered":"Forex Bill similar to what Solheim envisaged: JO"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Lahiru Pothmulla\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Foreign Exchange Bill which presented in Parliament by the government is similar to what former Norwegian peace envoy Erik Solheim envisaged, the joint opposition said today.<\/p>\n<p>It said the Bill would enable the Tamil Diaspora which was a repository of LTTE funds to invest in Sri Lanka without any control or monitoring by the Central Bank (CB).<\/p>\n<p>Solheim mentioned this at an interview with \u2018The Hindu\u2019 soon after the election victory of President Maithripala Sirisena. He said the government should reach out to the Tamil Diaspora and get them to invest in Sri Lanka,\u201d MP Bandula Gunawardane told the JO\u2019s weekly news conference. (Lahiru Pothmulla)<\/p>\n<p>See more at: http:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/article\/Forex-Bill-similar-to-what-Solheim-envisaged-JO-127755.html#sthash.MhlZVlx2.dpuf<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Forex Bill similar to what Solheim envisaged  JO\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nwy14FaVjAU?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>Lahiru Pothmulla\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Foreign Exchange Bill which presented in Parliament by the government is similar to what former Norwegian peace envoy Erik Solheim envisaged, the joint opposition said today. It said the Bill would enable the Tamil Diaspora which was a repository of LTTE funds to invest in Sri Lanka without any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65556","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=65556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}