{"id":96012,"date":"2019-12-04T16:21:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T23:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=96012"},"modified":"2019-12-04T16:21:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T23:21:14","slug":"swiss-embassy-staffer-to-be-flown-to-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/12\/04\/swiss-embassy-staffer-to-be-flown-to-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Embassy Staffer to be Flown to Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I. de Silva London, Ontario Canada<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Hon.  HansPeter Mick <br> Ambassador  for Switzerland in Sri Lanka 63  Gregory&#8217;s Road Colombo  7 Sri  Lanka<br><br> Dear  Sir: \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0  Reference Your Action to Fly a Sri Lankan Citizen and Her Family to  Switzerland <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>News  reports claim that you have intervened to request the Sri Lankan Government to  assist you in flying a Sri Lankan citizen and her family to Switzerland.  Apparently this individual was stopped on the road, outside the embassy.\u00a0 You  claim that this individual is a staff member of the Swiss Embassy in Colombo.  You have not indicated what this sudden &#8220;illness&#8221; is. It is strange that she had  no &#8220;illness&#8221; when she was in your embassy but suddenly became ill on the road  outside the embassy and that this sudden illness requires and ambulance aircraft  to fly her out of Sri Lanka.\u00a0 <br><br> It  is essential that you provide the following information to protect the general  public from this sudden illness. <br><br> Did  you seek a medical opinion on her illness while she was in the embassy?  <br><br> Is  the illness contagious that it requires her family to also be flown to  Switzerland? <br> What  about all the others with whom she had contact both in the embassy and outside?\u00a0  Do they not need to be advised what the illness is so that they could get\u00a0  medical treatment? <br> It  is your responsibility to advise the general public immediately.\u00a0 When are you  going to provide the Sri Lankan Government and the general public in Sri Lanka  the information on this sudden and grave illness that requires treatment in  Switzerland?\u00a0<br> \u00a0 Please  advise the Sri Lankan public immediately.\u00a0 Based on the information you provide,  the Sri Lankan Government should decide whether this act was genuine or a hoax.  If it was genuine, you are to be commended. If it is a &#8220;hoax&#8221; then it is  imperative that the Sri Lankan Government request the Government of Switzerland  to recall you immediately. <br> Yours  truly, <br> I.  de Silva London,  Ontario Canada<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I. de Silva London, Ontario Canada Hon. HansPeter Mick Ambassador for Switzerland in Sri Lanka 63 Gregory&#8217;s Road Colombo 7 Sri Lanka Dear Sir: \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reference Your Action to Fly a Sri Lankan Citizen and Her Family to Switzerland News reports claim that you have intervened to request the Sri Lankan Government to assist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ira-de-silva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96012","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=96012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}