{"id":26976,"date":"2024-10-02T12:42:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T07:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=26976"},"modified":"2024-10-04T20:18:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T14:48:54","slug":"australian-high-commissioner-meets-akd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=26976","title":{"rendered":"Australian High Commissioner meets AKD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President&#8217;s Media Division (PMD) reports that&nbsp; Australian High Commissioner Paul Stephens held a courtesy meeting with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake this morning (02) at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo.<br \/>During the discussion, the High Commissioner extended his warmest congratulations and that of the Government of Australia to President Dissanayake on his recent election victory and expressed the Australian Government&#8217;s strong commitment to deepening ties with Sri Lanka.<br \/>The High Commissioner stated that the Australian government reassured its support in key areas, including maritime safety, border control, and counter-terrorism efforts. High Commissioner Stephens emphasized Australia&#8217;s commitment to supporting Sri Lanka&#8217;s IMF program and expressed a strong interest in promoting Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) in the country. He also highlighted the importance of maintaining economic transparency as a crucial element for fostering investor confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/au2-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/au2-1-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26979\" style=\"width:889px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/au2-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/au2-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/au2-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/au2-1-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/au2-1-1140x760.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/au2-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-26976' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=26976&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-26976' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-26976' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-26976' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-26976'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-26976' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-26976 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President&#8217;s Media Division (PMD) reports that&nbsp; Australian High Commissioner Paul Stephens held a courtesy meeting with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,97,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-smartphones","category-political","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26980,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26976\/revisions\/26980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}