{"id":93932,"date":"2019-10-16T15:11:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T22:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=93932"},"modified":"2019-10-16T15:11:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T22:11:17","slug":"state-resources-sold-by-govt-must-be-reclaimed-gotabaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/10\/16\/state-resources-sold-by-govt-must-be-reclaimed-gotabaya\/","title":{"rendered":"State resources sold by govt. must be reclaimed &#8211; Gotabaya"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The manifesto of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna\u2019s presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa is scheduled to be launched on the 25th of October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parliamentarian Udaya Gammanpila stated that this decision was taken during a discussion held at the official residence of Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa last night (15).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tea factory owners call on Gotabaya (English)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EnvDK7hH58Q?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has pointed out that Sri Lanka\u2019s sovereignty is currently under threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stated this addressing a convention held at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute yesterday. The event was held under the auspices of SLPP presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also commented that the State resources the incumbent government sold to foreign countries must be reclaimed. We have a policy that ensures our country moves forward, putting the nation\u2019s sovereignty at the forefront,\u201d Gotabaya Rajapaksa added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Speaking of the UNHRC resolution co-sponsored by Sri Lanka during the special press conference held in Colombo yesterday, Rajapaksa said We will always work with the United Nations. But I can\u2019t recognize what they have signed with a different government. It\u2019s not with my government.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The manifesto of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna\u2019s presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa is scheduled to be launched on the 25th of October. Parliamentarian Udaya Gammanpila stated that this decision was taken during a discussion held at the official residence of Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa last night (15). Meanwhile, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has pointed out that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gotabaya-rajapaksa","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93932","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=93932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}