{"id":44422,"date":"2024-05-15T05:37:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T09:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=44422"},"modified":"2024-05-15T05:38:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T09:38:12","slug":"sri-lanka-in-talks-with-india-to-set-up-small-arms-manufacturing-unit-premitha-tennakoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/sri-lanka-in-talks-with-india-to-set-up-small-arms-manufacturing-unit-premitha-tennakoon\/44422\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka in talks with India to set up small arms manufacturing unit: Premitha Tennakoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka is engaged with India to set up a small arms manufacturing unit in the country in the wider ambit of defence cooperation between the two nations, State Minister of Defence Premitha Bandara Tennakoon said on Wednesday. \u201cWe are in discussions with India to set up a small arms manufacturing unit,\u201d Tennakoon said responding to a press query here. \u201cWe are in touch with our Indian counterparts, there is so much we can take and learn from India,\u201d he added. Tennakoon said, \u201cThose discussions are ongoing \u2013 a joint venture in the military industry.\u201d This follows the second seminar of the India-Sri Lanka Defence Cooperation held here in early April.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian envoy in Colombo, Santosh Jha, in his address, said the Indian defence industry today rolls out state-of-the-art systems, advanced technologies and world-class equipment. \u201cTo name a few, this ranges from fighter aircraft and helicopters to naval vessels, from electronic warfare systems to cyber security solutions and from small arms to large calibre precision long-range artillery systems,\u201d he added. Jha said that India would be \u201cwilling to make these capabilities available to our friendly partner countries like Sri Lanka.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka is engaged with India to set up a small arms manufacturing unit in the country in the wider\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":44423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[14046,96,14048,14045,2985,14047],"class_list":["post-44422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-defence-industry","tag-india","tag-joint-venture","tag-small-arms-manufacturing-unit","tag-sri-lanka","tag-state-minister-of-defence-premitha-bandara-tennakoon"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}