{"id":103946,"date":"2017-05-24T21:58:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T01:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=103946"},"modified":"2017-05-24T21:58:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T01:58:22","slug":"sri-lankan-president-discusses-asylum-seekers-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/24\/sri-lankan-president-discusses-asylum-seekers-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan president discusses asylum seekers in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_103948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103948\" style=\"width: 813px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1544479_10152963102986327_8822157684912480250_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103948\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1544479_10152963102986327_8822157684912480250_n.jpg\" alt=\"Sri Lanka's president has met with the Australian prime minister with fighting people-smuggling high on the agenda. (Photo: Maithripala Sirisena\/Facebook)\" width=\"813\" height=\"813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1544479_10152963102986327_8822157684912480250_n.jpg 813w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1544479_10152963102986327_8822157684912480250_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1544479_10152963102986327_8822157684912480250_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1544479_10152963102986327_8822157684912480250_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 813px) 100vw, 813px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sri Lanka&#8217;s president has met with the Australian prime minister with fighting people-smuggling high on the agenda. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/maithripalas\/photos\/a.487438351326.294959.365053451326\/10152963102986327\/?type=1&amp;theater\">Maithripala Sirisena\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CANBERRA, Australia\u2014Sri Lanka&#8217;s president has met with the Australian prime minister with fighting people-smuggling high on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>President Maithripala Sirisena is making the first visit by a Sri Lankan head of state to Australia. His visit to Canberra and Sydney marks the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the countries.<\/p>\n<p>After meeting with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Thursday he&#8217;s also scheduled to speak with Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Peter Dutton.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankans, Iranians and Afghans are the largest national groups among more than 2,000 asylum seekers who are kept at Australia&#8217;s expense on the Pacific island nations of Nauru and Papua New Guinea. But no Sri Lankan asylum seeker has reached Australia by boat since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANBERRA, Australia\u2014Sri Lanka&#8217;s president has met with the Australian prime minister with fighting people-smuggling high on the agenda. President Maithripala &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":103948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[19517],"class_list":["post-103946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-maithripala-sirisena","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}