{"id":22916,"date":"2018-11-23T09:22:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T09:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22916"},"modified":"2018-11-23T09:22:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T09:22:41","slug":"61-of-saudi-arabias-weapons-come-from-one-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22916","title":{"rendered":"61% of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s weapons come from one country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A number of countries have restricted arms sales to Saudi Arabia since the kingdom began airstrikes on Yemen in 2015, in a war that the UN describes as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/21\/politics\/mattis-yemen-peace-talks\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">the world&#8217;s worst man-made humanitarian disaster. <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/19\/middleeast\/khashoggi-yemen-saudi-arabia-analysis-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Calls for more restrictions on arms exports have been growing<\/a>, particularly in Europe, since the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Turkey last month. US President Donald Trump, however, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/20\/politics\/trump-saudi-arabia\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">repeatedly pointed to the US&#8217; lucrative arms deals<\/a> with the Saudis as a reason to stand by the kingdom.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Denmark and Finland on Thursday became the latest countries to suspend new arms deals with Saudi Arabia. Denmark&#8217;s Foreign Ministry said it was freezing new deals over both Khashoggi and Yemen, while the Finnish Foreign Ministry mentioned only Yemen. Finland also banned new arms sales to the United Arab Emirates, which is part of the Saudi-led coalition in the conflict.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A number of countries have restricted arms sales to Saudi Arabia since the kingdom began airstrikes on Yemen in 2015, in a war that the UN describes as the world&#8217;s worst man-made humanitarian disaster. Calls for more restrictions on arms exports have been growing, particularly in Europe, since the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22916","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=22916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}