{"id":109234,"date":"2013-10-08T06:55:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T01:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=109234"},"modified":"2013-10-08T06:55:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T01:25:05","slug":"wigneswaran-meets-indian-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wigneswaran-meets-indian-foreign-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Wigneswaran Meets Indian Foreign Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tamil National Alliance representatives are currently meeting with Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid ahead of his meetings with Northern Chief Minister <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=c.V.+Wigneswaran&amp;x=10&amp;y=4\">C.V. Wigneswaran<\/a><\/span> in Jaffna today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_95185\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tussle-over-senathirajah-or-wigneswaran-is-tnas-chief-minister-candidate\/wigneswaran-with-sambanthan\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95185\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95185\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-95185\" title=\"Wigneswaran-with-Sambanthan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Wigneswaran-with-Sambanthan-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Wigneswaran-with-Sambanthan-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Wigneswaran-with-Sambanthan-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-95185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wigneswaran-with-Sambanthan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>TNA Leader R. Sampanthan and Parliamentarians M.A. Sumanthiran, Suresh Premachandran and Selvam Adaikalanathan are attending the meeting in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>The 13th Amendment to the constitution and the recently concluded Northern election at which the TNA won an overwhelming mandate are likely to be under discussion.<\/p>\n<p>The TNA is expected to outline its plans for the NPC at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Khurshid called for the full implementation of the 13th Amendment and a political solution that builds on the constitutional provision after his meeting with Foreign Minister G.L Peiris. He said India hoped that after the Northern election the TNA and the Government could address the issue of a political solution and meaningful devolution to the provinces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":95185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wigneswaran Meets Indian Foreign Minister - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wigneswaran-meets-indian-foreign-minister\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wigneswaran Meets Indian Foreign Minister - 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