{"id":66518,"date":"2025-07-28T10:17:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T05:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/?p=66518"},"modified":"2025-07-28T13:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T08:29:13","slug":"sri-lankan-president-anura-kumara-dissanayake-begins-first-state-visit-to-maldives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/66518\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake Begins First State Visit to Maldives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"203\" data-end=\"483\">Mal\u00e9 \u2014 In a significant diplomatic event, Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has arrived in the Maldives for his first official state visit since assuming office in September 2024. The visit was made at the invitation of Maldivian President Dr Mohamed Muizzu.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"485\" data-end=\"682\">Upon arrival, President Dissanayake and his delegation were warmly welcomed at Velana International Airport by President Muizzu. An official welcome ceremony is planned for later today in Mal\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"684\" data-end=\"949\">The two leaders are set to engage in detailed discussions focused on strengthening the already robust bilateral relations between the Maldives and Sri Lanka. Key topics on the agenda include enhancing cooperation in trade, tourism, education, and maritime security.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"951\" data-end=\"1212\">Following their talks, Presidents Muizzu and Dissanayake will jointly address the media to share the outcomes of their meetings. Additionally, the visit will see the signing of several important Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) to deepen partnership efforts.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1214\" data-end=\"1381\">This year marks a milestone in the Maldives-Sri Lanka relationship, celebrating 60 years of diplomatic ties since they were officially established on 26 July 1965.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1383\" data-end=\"1480\">Raajje24 will keep readers informed as developments unfold throughout this important state visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mal\u00e9 \u2014 In a significant diplomatic event, Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has arrived in the Maldives for his first official state visit since assuming office in September 2024. The visit was made at the invitation of Maldivian President Dr Mohamed Muizzu. Upon arrival, President Dissanayake and his delegation were warmly welcomed at Velana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":66519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66520,"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66518\/revisions\/66520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}