{"id":40729,"date":"2015-04-19T01:56:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T05:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=40729"},"modified":"2015-04-19T23:27:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T03:27:47","slug":"ranil-tells-indian-media-that-his-govt-represents-interests-of-sri-lankans-in-the-case-of-intrusion-by-indian-fishermen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=40729","title":{"rendered":"Ranil Tells Indian Media that his Govt represents Interests of Sri Lankans in the Case of Intrusion by Indian fishermen."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>K.Santosh<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17804\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/RW030613.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17804\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/RW030613.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe\" width=\"200\" height=\"244\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17804\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe has said Sri Lanka is neither pro-India nor pro-China.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Wickramasinghe was answering reporters during his visit to the Sreekrishna Temple here on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>On his controversial statement in an interview to a Tamil TV channel that Indian fishermen might be shot if they intruded into Sri Lankan waters, he said: \u201cThe Sri Lankan government primarily represents the interests of Sri Lankans.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Calling for better bilateral ties, Mr. Wickramasinghe said: \u201cWe must move ahead,\u201d pointing to visits by Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s to India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s visit to Sri Lanka.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI had promised to offer worship in the temple if the results in the Sri Lankan elections were favourable.\u201d His wife Maitree Wickramasinghe and Sri Lankan Minister for Resettlement, Reconstruction and Hindu Religious Affairs D. M. Swaminathan accompanied him. He offered \u2018thulabharam\u2019 with sandalwood.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Hindu<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton40729\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D40729&amp;text=Ranil%20Tells%20Indian%20Media%20that%20his%20Govt%20represents%20Interests%20of%20Sri%20Lankans%20in%20the%20Case%20of%20Intrusion%20by%20Indian...%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 K.Santosh Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe has said Sri Lanka is neither pro-India nor pro-China. Mr. Wickramasinghe was answering reporters during his visit to the Sreekrishna Temple here on Saturday.<\/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\/40729"}],"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=40729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40747,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40729\/revisions\/40747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}