{"id":11436,"date":"2018-08-14T02:25:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T02:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11436"},"modified":"2018-08-14T02:25:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T02:25:28","slug":"will-the-caspian-sea-deal-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11436","title":{"rendered":"Will the Caspian Sea deal hold?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"83\">\n<p>Some call it a sea, others a lake. For decades its status has been questioned.<\/p>\n<p>Five countries &#8211; Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan &#8211; now agree the Caspian Sea, as it is commonly known, has a\u00a0&#8220;special status.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They all have coastlines on the water and dispute who owned the area of water.<\/p>\n<p>A deal has now been reached to share the surface and divide up the seabed.<\/p>\n<p>If the new agreement holds, it will pave the way for oil and gas exploration.<\/p>\n<p>Could this lead to a new global energy and political alliance?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong>\u00a0Mohammed Jamjoom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stanislav Pritchin &#8211; analyst at the Russia and Eurasia programme at Chatham House<\/p>\n<p>Foad Izadi &#8211; professor of world studies at the University of Tehran<\/p>\n<p>Lilit Gevorgyan &#8211; country risk analyst at the firm IHS Markit<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some call it a sea, others a lake. For decades its status has been questioned. Five countries &#8211; Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan &#8211; now agree the Caspian Sea, as it is commonly known, has a\u00a0&#8220;special status.&#8221; They all have coastlines on the water and dispute who owned the area of water. A deal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}