{"id":88258,"date":"2019-05-06T13:23:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T20:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88258"},"modified":"2019-05-06T13:23:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T20:23:33","slug":"saudi-embassy-rejects-allegations-in-sri-lankan-newspaper-as-baseless-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/06\/saudi-embassy-rejects-allegations-in-sri-lankan-newspaper-as-baseless-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Embassy rejects allegations in Sri Lankan newspaper as &#8216;baseless lie&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>JEDDAH \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong>The Kingdom&#8217;s embassy in Colombo dismissed a report published in a Sri Lankan newspaper insinuating Saudi responsibility for last month&#8217;s terrorist attacks in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia to Sri Lanka closely followed the news item published in the local newspaper &#8216;Weekend Express&#8217; on May 3, 2019, under the heading &#8216;Leaked document reveals Saudi responsibility for the attacks&#8217;, quoting the Lebanese news site Al-Ahed,&#8221; the embassy said in a press statement released in Colombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The embassy expresses its displeasure and condemnation of the publication of false allegations against the Kingdom in a state-owned newspaper in Sri Lanka, which led other local media organs to reproduce the news item,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The embassy categorically denied any Saudi involvement in the incident and emphasized that the published news item was a baseless lie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The embassy urged the Sri Lankan media institutions to ascertain the reliability of their sources before publishing any news about Saudi Arabia.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JEDDAH \u2014&nbsp;The Kingdom&#8217;s embassy in Colombo dismissed a report published in a Sri Lankan newspaper insinuating Saudi responsibility for last month&#8217;s terrorist attacks in the country. &#8220;The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia to Sri Lanka closely followed the news item published in the local newspaper &#8216;Weekend Express&#8217; on May 3, 2019, under the heading &#8216;Leaked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88258","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=88258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}