{"id":81849,"date":"2018-10-09T23:19:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T05:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=81849"},"modified":"2018-10-09T16:16:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T23:16:07","slug":"foreign-sojourns-of-the-president-and-the-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/10\/09\/foreign-sojourns-of-the-president-and-the-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign sojourns of the President and the Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sudath Gunasekara<\/em> <\/span>
\n8.10. 2018.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Could someone find out the details about the foreign trips President Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinha have undertaken (separately) after they assumed Office in 2015.<\/p>\n

Also the amount of public funds spent on these trips from government coffers and the benefits the country has got from these trips. Other than the sell outs in the form of PTAA etc and it would be interesting to make a cost benefit analysis of their trips. Of cause benefit to them and the country separately<\/p>\n

It would also be interesting to how much they have spent on their heli tours inside the country and for what purpose they have gone<\/p>\n

In my opinion the benefit to the country is almost zero. As for me their foreign sojourns are just like Neeros playing the fiddle while Rome was in fire. I wonder whether there is any country big and small they have not visited during these three years.<\/p>\n

Now look this time both of them have gone out together when the whole country is on fire, Pm to Europe to get advice from those nations who have plundered this Island nation for centuries and continue to destroy and destabilize even now. The President on the last lap of his crazy foreign sojourns, on the other hand has gone to sychillese Islands a country with only 157.3 sq Km and about 70,000 people to improve bilateral trade and perhaps foreign assistance to rescue the Central Bank<\/p>\n

The way they have been globetrotting alternatively competing against each other, while not doing anything at home\u00a0 to lift up the country other than infighting and taking revenge from their political opponents, that has been the hallmark of their 4 years of adventures\u00a0 miss-government. I propose this report should be tabled in Parliament and published so that the voters of this country will know how much pain their elected leaders have taken to develop the country and to improve living standards of the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sudath Gunasekara 8.10. 2018. Could someone find out the details about the foreign trips President Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinha have undertaken (separately) after they assumed Office in 2015. Also the amount of public funds spent on these trips from government coffers and the benefits the country has got from these trips. Other than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sudath-gunasekara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81849","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=81849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}