{"id":155643,"date":"2016-01-10T18:50:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T13:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=155643"},"modified":"2016-01-23T13:27:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T07:57:58","slug":"hirunikas-aunt-to-get-diplomatic-posting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/hirunikas-aunt-to-get-diplomatic-posting\/","title":{"rendered":"Hirunika&#8217;s Aunt To Get Diplomatic Posting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sirisena-Wickremesinghe regime\u2019s policy of helping friends and family appears to have spread to the Foreign Ministry with career diplomats being overlooked in favour of loyalists and their kin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Swarna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-155644\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Swarna-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"Swarna\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Swarna-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Swarna.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a>Swarna Pushpa Kanthi Gunaratne, sister of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Hirunika+Premachandra&amp;x=10&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hirunika Premachandra<\/span><\/a>&#8216;s late father <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Bharatha+Lakshman+Premachandra&amp;x=11&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra<\/span><\/a> is to be\u00a0appointed\u00a0as Sri Lanka&#8217;s consul in Los Angeles, USA.<\/p>\n<p>Colombo Telegraph emailed the Foreign Ministry requesting confirmation of the report regarding the appointment, but the Ministry has not responded yet.<\/p>\n<p>When Colombo Telegraph contacted Swarna Gunaratne yesterday, she said she is waiting for the confirmation. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t got the appointment letter yet&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>It is confirmed that Guarante has never held a diplomatic post before or has any career training or experience in the diplomatic service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related posts;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nepotism-continues-foreign-ministry-tight-lipped-about-sonali-samarasinghes-political-appointment\/\">Nepotism Continues: Foreign Ministry Tight-Lipped About Sonali Samarasinghe\u2019s \u2018Political Appointment\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nepotism-bug-hits-foreign-ministry\/\">Nepotism Bug Hits Foreign Ministry<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":155644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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