{"id":33700,"date":"2014-10-01T15:33:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T19:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=33700"},"modified":"2014-10-01T15:33:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T19:33:02","slug":"sri-lankas-envoy-to-uk-dr-chris-nonis-refuses-to-talk-to-media-about-alleged-assault-by-sajin-de-vass-gunawardena-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=33700","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka&#8217;s Envoy to UK Dr. Chris Nonis Refuses to Talk to Media about Alleged Assault by Sajin de Vass Gunawardena in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by <\/p>\n<p>Zacki Jabbar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s High Commissioner to the UK Dr. Chris Nonis yesterday declined to comment on strong speculation that he had resigned from his post after being assaulted by a powerful government MP while in the US recently.<\/p>\n<p>Contacted over the telephone for comment on the incident which had allegedly taken place during a function in New York, Dr. Nonis replied: \u2018No Comment.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he was back in the UK, Dr. Nonis replied in the affirmative, but he said he did not wish to talk about the incident.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, asked if Dr. Nonis had relinquished his post, during yesterday\u2019s weekly Cabinet Press Briefing in Colombo, promptly called the External Affairs Ministry to check. &#8220;No, the External Affairs Ministry tells me that our High Commissioner in the UK has not resigned and he is still with us,&#8221; Rambuwalle\u2019s said.<\/p>\n<p>Social media reported that a government MP had slapped High Commissioner Nonis across the face at a function in New York.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton33700\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D33700&amp;text=Sri%20Lanka%26%238217%3Bs%20Envoy%20to%20UK%20Dr.%20Chris%20Nonis%20Refuses%20to%20Talk%20to%20Media%20about%20Alleged%20Assault%20by%20Sajin%20de%20Vass...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Zacki Jabbar Sri Lanka\u2019s High Commissioner to the UK Dr. Chris Nonis yesterday declined to comment on strong speculation that he had resigned from his post after being assaulted by a powerful government MP while in the US recently. Contacted over the telephone for comment on the incident which had allegedly taken place during &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=33700\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Sri Lanka&#8217;s Envoy to UK Dr. Chris Nonis Refuses to Talk to Media about Alleged Assault by Sajin de Vass Gunawardena in New York&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33701,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33700\/revisions\/33701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}