{"id":1741,"date":"2026-05-24T09:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T09:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2026-05-24T09:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T09:24:12","slug":"us-pacific-army-deputy-commander-visits-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/24\/us-pacific-army-deputy-commander-visits-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"US Pacific Army Deputy Commander Visits Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major General Giles Cornelia of the United States Pacific Army undertook an official visit to Sri Lanka from May 20 to May 23.<\/p>\n<p>The visit was aimed at strengthening army-to-army discussions and enhancing bilateral military cooperation between the United States and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>During meetings with Sri Lanka Army Commander Lasantha Rodrigo and other senior military officials, extensive discussions were held on mutual security relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Special attention was reportedly given to improving cooperation in key areas such as humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations, military engineering collaboration, and military medical training programmes.<\/p>\n<p>It was also stated that the United States is proud to partner with Sri Lanka in strengthening disaster preparedness, resilience in facing challenges, and regional security cooperation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1742 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-24-143621-300x196.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"762\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-24-143621-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-24-143621-768x502.png 768w, https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-24-143621.png 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1743 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-24-143604-300x138.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"765\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-24-143604-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-24-143604-1024x470.png 1024w, https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-24-143604-768x352.png 768w, https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-24-143604.png 1177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major General Giles Cornelia of the United States Pacific Army undertook an official visit to Sri Lanka from May 20 to May 23. The visit was aimed at strengthening army-to-army discussions and enhancing bilateral military cooperation between the United States and Sri Lanka. During meetings with Sri Lanka Army Commander Lasantha Rodrigo and other senior &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741","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\/1741","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=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}