{"id":29928,"date":"2019-01-20T18:23:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T18:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29928"},"modified":"2019-01-20T18:23:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T18:23:36","slug":"arab-summit-to-address-economic-crisis-in-mideast-lebanons-aoun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29928","title":{"rendered":"Arab summit to address economic crisis in Mideast: Lebanon\u2019s Aoun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1438616\/middle-east\" readability=\"59\">\n<p>\nThe Arab Economic and Social Development summit held in Lebanon will address the economic crisis in the region, President Michel Aoun said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\nAoun proposed an initiative that includes the establishment of an Arab bank for reconstruction and development.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI call on the Arab parties to meet in Beirut to discuss the Arab Bank\u2019s reconstruction initiative,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\nDuring the Arab summit, leaders will also discuss the plight of the Syrian refugees. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe are working on solutions to the crisis of the displaced,\u201d Anoun said, calling on the international community to secure a safe return of displaced Syrians to their country.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn his opening remarks, Anoun apologized for the other Arab leaders who were unable to attend.<\/p>\n<p>\nOnly three heads of state \u2014 from Qatar, Mauritania and Somalia \u2014 attended the summit, however, shortly after it began, Qatar&#8217;s ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani left.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arab Economic and Social Development summit held in Lebanon will address the economic crisis in the region, President Michel Aoun said on Sunday. Aoun proposed an initiative that includes the establishment of an Arab bank for reconstruction and development. \u201cI call on the Arab parties to meet in Beirut to discuss the Arab Bank\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29928","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\/29928","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=29928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}