{"id":30000,"date":"2019-01-21T09:23:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T09:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30000"},"modified":"2019-01-21T09:23:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T09:23:09","slug":"qatar-to-bolster-lebanese-economy-with-500m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30000","title":{"rendered":"Qatar to bolster Lebanese economy with $500m"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"77.6914095079\">\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/qatar.html\">Qatar<\/a> will invest $500m in Lebanese government US dollar bonds to support Lebanon&#8217;s economy, the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/lebanon.html\">Lebanon<\/a> has the world&#8217;s third highest public debt compared with the gross domestic product (GDP) and stagnant growth. Comments from its finance minister 10 days ago about Lebanon&#8217;s public debt triggered concerns it might be restructured, leading to a sell-off in the country&#8217;s dollar-denominated sovereign bonds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The decision to invest came after Qatar&#8217;s Emir <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/tamim-bin-hamad-al-thani.html\">Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani<\/a> made a brief visit to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/01\/beirut-summit-arab-nations-aim-free-trade-zone-syria-aid-190120084035643.html\">Arab economic summit<\/a> in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Sunday, during which he met President Michel Aoun.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar&#8217;s Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani stressed<span>\u00a0on Monday that\u00a0<\/span>his country has always been committed to supporting Lebanese people in light of the challenges they face, and the move stems from the &#8220;profound fraternal ties between the two brotherly countries&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wish stability and prosperity for the Lebanese Republic and the Lebanese people, and that the Lebanese economy will recover,&#8221; the foreign minister said in a statement to Qatar News Agency (QNA).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The region needs a strong and prosperous Lebanon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar will invest $500m in Lebanese government US dollar bonds to support Lebanon&#8217;s economy, the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said. Lebanon has the world&#8217;s third highest public debt compared with the gross domestic product (GDP) and stagnant growth. Comments from its finance minister 10 days ago about Lebanon&#8217;s public debt triggered concerns it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30000","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\/30000","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=30000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}