{"id":95642,"date":"2019-11-25T16:47:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T23:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=95642"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:47:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T23:47:45","slug":"it-was-a-mistake-to-lease-hambantota-port-for-99-years-president-gotabhaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/25\/it-was-a-mistake-to-lease-hambantota-port-for-99-years-president-gotabhaya\/","title":{"rendered":"It was a mistake to lease Hambantota port for 99 years &#8211; President Gotabhaya"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa says that the previous government has made a mistake by giving the Hambantota port which is strategically and economically very close to many major shipping lanes on a 99-year lease.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa made this statement during an interview with the Indian news service SNI, which was the first interview given by the President to foreign media after his election to office.<\/p>\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=\"We Won\u2019t Do Anything That Will Harm India\u2019s Interests: Gotabaya\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YYCz4KY6tVk?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> He further stated that the Hambantota Port Leasing Agreement should be re-evaluated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President added that he is ready to discuss the matter with China in order for Sri Lanka to gain control of the Port. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa says that the previous government has made a mistake by giving the Hambantota port which is strategically and economically very close to many major shipping lanes on a 99-year lease.\u00a0 President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa made this statement during an interview with the Indian news service SNI, which was the first [&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-95642","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\/95642","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=95642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}