{"id":19450,"date":"2018-10-22T18:24:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T18:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19450"},"modified":"2018-10-22T18:24:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T18:24:36","slug":"pm-hariri-still-working-to-form-lebanese-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19450","title":{"rendered":"PM Hariri: Still working to form Lebanese government"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1391931\/middle-east\" readability=\"42\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT: Efforts to form a new Lebanese government after months of negotiation remain \u201con their way to a solution,\u201d prime minister designate Saad Hariri said on Monday.<br \/>Last week President Michel Aoun said a government would be formed \u201cvery soon\u201d and a government source said it would be agreed during the weekend, but press reports on Monday cited senior politicians saying problems persisted.<br \/>Parties have been jostling since May\u2019s parliament election over ministerial positions in a new national unity government, but the political uncertainty has contributed to fears that Lebanon faces a looming economic crisis.<br \/>\u201cContacts continue to form a government and the issue is not impossible, as some are trying to suggest,\u201d Hariri said in televised comments to reporters.<br \/>Lebanon has one of the world\u2019s most indebted governments, owing about 150 percent of gross domestic product, and the International Monetary Fund warned early this year that Beirut must urgently undertake fiscal reforms.<br \/>President Aoun said in a Twitter post on Monday that circumstances required a rapid formation of the government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT: Efforts to form a new Lebanese government after months of negotiation remain \u201con their way to a solution,\u201d prime minister designate Saad Hariri said on Monday.Last week President Michel Aoun said a government would be formed \u201cvery soon\u201d and a government source said it would be agreed during the weekend, but press reports on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19450","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\/19450","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=19450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}