{"id":91313,"date":"2019-07-12T16:26:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T23:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91313"},"modified":"2019-07-12T16:26:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T23:26:55","slug":"saudi-embassy-refutes-allegations-of-providing-loans-for-lankan-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/07\/12\/saudi-embassy-refutes-allegations-of-providing-loans-for-lankan-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Embassy refutes allegations of providing loans for Lankan Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy\u00a0 Saudi Gazette<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong>COLOMBO \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong>The Kingdom&#8217;s embassy in Colombo has refuted allegations that Saudi Arabia is providing loans for Muslims through some local banks at the interest rate of 1 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Embassy of Saudi Arabia referred to a statement made by former Western Province Governor Dr. Hemakumara Nanayakkara on June 13 in their media release refuting the allegations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/saudigazette.com.sa\/uploads\/images\/2019\/07\/12\/1294736.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"404\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The embassy has asserted that the soft loans provided by Saudi Arabia for the development projects in Sri Lanka are intended to be contributions to provide a quality life for the friendly people of Sri Lanka.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The list of projects financed by the government of Saudi Arabia in Sri Lanka, as revealed by the Embassy of Saudi Arabia, is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Colombo Water Supply and Sewerage, $26.64m<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Electric Power Transmission, $12.83m<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Mahaweli Ganga Downstream Development System &#8220;B&#8221; Left Bank, $22.66m<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Medical Services Development in Colombo, $14.93m<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Batticaloa-Tricomalee Road Development, $10.66m<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Epilepsy Hospital and Health Center, $32 Million<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Kaluganga Development, $46m<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Road Network Development, $60m<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Improvement of Peradeniya-Badulla Chenkaladi Road, $60m<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Development of Left Bank of Kaluganga, $45m<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Development of Wayamba University, $28m<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Medical Faculty of Sabragamuwa University, $50m<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total: $408.72 m\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy\u00a0 Saudi Gazette COLOMBO \u2014&nbsp;The Kingdom&#8217;s embassy in Colombo has refuted allegations that Saudi Arabia is providing loans for Muslims through some local banks at the interest rate of 1 percent. The Embassy of Saudi Arabia referred to a statement made by former Western Province Governor Dr. Hemakumara Nanayakkara on June 13 in their media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91313","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=91313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}