{"id":157882,"date":"2016-02-21T00:20:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T18:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=157882"},"modified":"2016-02-21T00:20:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T18:50:05","slug":"no-one-can-stop-us-from-signing-ecta-with-india-ranil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/no-one-can-stop-us-from-signing-ecta-with-india-ranil\/","title":{"rendered":"No One Can Stop Us From Signing ECTA With India: Ranil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Ranil+Wickremesinghe&amp;x=12&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ranil Wickremesinghe<\/span><\/a> last night declared that no one can stop his government from signing the controversial Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=ETCA&amp;x=13&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ETCA<\/span><\/a>) with India.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_156485\" style=\"width: 282px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/ranil-to-expose-rajapaksas-temple-based-neo-fascist-movement\/ranil-43\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-156485\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156485\" class=\" wp-image-156485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ranil--300x265.jpg\" alt=\"Ranil \" width=\"272\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ranil--300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ranil-.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-156485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ranil<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe have the majority in Parliament and we are going ahead with this agreement, and no one can stop us,\u201d he told reporters on Saturday while touring Hambantota to inspect the airport, port, the convention centre and hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister said that his government has launched a series of initiatives in an effort to generate 1 million new jobs for the youth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are people shouting, and demanding us to not sign the agreement with India, who is shouting? The Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA). They are going on strike, but when they strike it doesn\u2019t affect the government, it only affects the people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Wickremesinghe also termed those opposing the agreement as \u2018traitors\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He also added that the GMOA had put up a bogus agreement on their website claiming it to be the agreement they government plans to sign with India. \u201cThis is a bogus document,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":156485,"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-157882","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 - 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