{"id":81621,"date":"2020-03-16T10:56:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T10:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=81621"},"modified":"2020-03-16T10:56:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T10:56:50","slug":"sri-lanka-proposes-saarc-ministers-group-for-joint-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/sri-lanka-proposes-saarc-ministers-group-for-joint-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka proposes Saarc ministers\u2019 group for joint response"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa said Sri Lanka\u2019s economy had taken a severe blow due to the impact of Covid 19 on the island nation and requested setting up of a joint mechanism to tide over the economic situation. He also proposed a ministerial group of Saarc members to discuss best practices and regional matters arising out of the fight against coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur economy has taken a severe blow due to the coronavirus, particularly in tourism, since most of the tourists are from Germany and Italy and other countries in Europe. Our Exports are also adversely affected,\u201d Rajapaksa said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another important proposal, he said a ministerial group of Saarc members should be created to deal with issues requiring cooperation and sharing of experiences for the disease\u2019s containment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI also wish to recommend that a Saarc ministerial level group be established to discuss and share best practice and coordinate regional matters on combating coronavirus,\u201d Gotabaya Rajapaksa added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajapaksa also confirmed that the Sri Lankan elections will be held as per the schedule on April 25 despite the coronavirus threat.\u201cThe elections will be held as per the plan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa said Sri Lanka\u2019s economy had taken a severe blow due to the impact of Covid 19 on the island nation and requested setting up of a joint mechanism to tide over the economic situation. He also proposed a ministerial group of Saarc members to discuss best practices and regional matters [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81623,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81621\/revisions\/81623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}