{"id":1689,"date":"2026-05-23T12:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2026-05-23T12:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:39:02","slug":"sri-lanka-and-united-states-discuss-strengthening-bilateral-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/23\/sri-lanka-and-united-states-discuss-strengthening-bilateral-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka and United States Discuss Strengthening Bilateral Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vijitha Herath held a special meeting with a high-level delegation from the United States Department of State to discuss further strengthening bilateral relations between Sri Lanka and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation included Nicole Shulik, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, and Jane Howell, who is responsible for consular affairs. The officials, currently on an official visit to Sri Lanka, met Minister Vijitha Herath at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>During the discussions, both sides explored ways to further expand the long-standing friendship between the two countries and cooperate closely in maintaining regional stability and security.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Embassy of the United States in Sri Lanka, the meeting also focused on new opportunities for enhanced bilateral cooperation, economic partnership, and regional matters of mutual interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vijitha Herath held a special meeting with a high-level delegation from the United States Department of State to discuss further strengthening bilateral relations between Sri Lanka and the United States. The delegation included Nicole Shulik, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, and Jane Howell, who is responsible for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}