{"id":30280,"date":"2019-01-23T12:29:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T12:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30280"},"modified":"2019-01-23T12:29:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T12:29:37","slug":"saudi-arabia-vows-full-support-for-struggling-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30280","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia vows full support for struggling Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1440416\/middle-east\" readability=\"48\">\n<p>\nDUBAI: Saudi Arabia has said it will provide \u201cfull assistance\u201d to Lebanon, as the country continues to face a sluggish economy, Saudi Arabia\u2019s finance minister said.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;We are interested to see stability in Lebanon and we will support Lebanon all the way,&#8221; Mohammed Al-Jadaan told American broadcaster CNBC at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;We are also determined to making sure that we play our role as a catalyst of stability in the region,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>\nAl-Jadaan\u2019s statement comes after Qatar announced its plans to buy $500 million worth of sovereign bonds to boost Beirut&#8217;s bond market.<\/p>\n<p>\nLebanon has one of the world&#8217;s highest levels of public debt compared to GDP and stagnant growth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Saudi Arabia has said it will provide \u201cfull assistance\u201d to Lebanon, as the country continues to face a sluggish economy, Saudi Arabia\u2019s finance minister said. &#8220;We are interested to see stability in Lebanon and we will support Lebanon all the way,&#8221; Mohammed Al-Jadaan told American broadcaster CNBC at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30280","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\/30280","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=30280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}