{"id":45040,"date":"2012-06-11T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=45040"},"modified":"2012-06-17T00:51:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T00:51:11","slug":"rajapaksa-meets-the-queen-the-pope-pachcha-sira-and-finally-mervyn-at-bia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/rajapaksa-meets-the-queen-the-pope-pachcha-sira-and-finally-mervyn-at-bia\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajapaksa Meets The Queen, The Pope, Pachcha Sira, And finally&#8230;Mervyn At BIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 6,2012 \u00a0the Queen spent a brief moment with Mr Rajapakse and appeared to fleetingly shake hands with him as she met guests at a reception in the Blenheim Saloon inside Marlborough House.On Friday 7,\u00a0Pope\u00a0Benedict XVI\u00a0met with Sri Lanka\u2019s president at the Vatican. After the meeting President Rajapaksa also met \u2018Pachcha Sira\u2019 . Then he met Mervin Silva from Madamulana at the BIA Colombo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/rajapaksa-meets-the-queen-the-pope-pachcha-sira-and-finally-mervyn-at-bia\/mervin-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45042\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45042\" title=\"Mervin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mervin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mervin.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mervin-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/rajapaksa-meets-pachcha-sira-after-pope\/rome_pachcha_sira_j\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44878\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44878\" title=\"Rome_Pachcha_Sira_J\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Rome_Pachcha_Sira_J.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Rome_Pachcha_Sira_J.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Rome_Pachcha_Sira_J-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/pope-meets-with-president-of-sri-lanka-video-released\/mr-pope-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44710\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-44710\" title=\"MR Pope\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MR-Pope1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MR-Pope1.jpg 939w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MR-Pope1-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MR-Pope1-800x485.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/rajapaksa-meets-the-queen-the-pope-pachcha-sira-and-finally-mervyn-at-bia\/mr-queesn-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45041\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45041\" title=\"MR-queesn\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MR-queesn1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MR-queesn1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MR-queesn1-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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