{"id":501253,"date":"2022-06-28T11:39:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T06:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=501253"},"modified":"2022-06-28T11:39:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T06:09:09","slug":"sri-lanka-sends-two-ministers-to-russia-negotiate-for-fuel-amid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sri-lanka-sends-two-ministers-to-russia-negotiate-for-fuel-amid-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka sends two ministers to Russia negotiate for fuel amid crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka is sending two government ministers to Russia to negotiate for fuel \u2014 one of the necessities nearly exhausted amid the Indian Ocean island nation&#8217;s economic collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said two ministers are scheduled to leave for Russia on Monday to continue in-person talks that Sri Lanka has been having with Russian authorities to directly purchase fuel, among other related issues.<\/p>\n<p>He urged people Saturday not to line up for fuel, saying only limited stock will be distributed to limited stations throughout next week. He said until the next shipments arrive, \u201cpublic transport, power generators and industries will be given a priority.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka is sending two government ministers to Russia to negotiate for fuel \u2014 one of the necessities nearly exhausted amid the Indian Ocean island nation&#8217;s economic collapse. Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said two ministers are scheduled to leave for Russia on Monday to continue in-person talks that Sri Lanka has been having with Russian authorities to directly purchase fuel, among other related issues. He urged people Saturday not to line up for fuel, saying only limited stock will be distributed to limited stations throughout next week. He said until the next shipments arrive, \u201cpublic transport, power generators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}