{"id":31070,"date":"2019-01-29T19:22:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T19:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31070"},"modified":"2019-01-29T19:22:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T19:22:54","slug":"palestinians-ask-un-to-deploy-observer-force-in-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31070","title":{"rendered":"Palestinians ask UN to deploy observer force in West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"47\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT: This week will be decisive in efforts to form a new government in Lebanon, prime minister-designate Saad Al-Hariri said on Tuesday, adding he was \u201ccautiously optimistic.\u201d<br \/>Rival parties have been negotiating to form a coalition government since a national election in May, fueling concerns that a crisis is looming for the country\u2019s heavily indebted, stagnant economy.<br \/>\u201cMatters are positive and will become clear within two days&#8230; This week is decisive, positively or negatively,\u201d Hariri was cited as saying in a statement from his office.<br \/>On Saturday, the leader of Lebanon\u2019s powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah movement said \u201cextraordinary efforts\u201d were being made to form the government, but that two obstacles remained.<br \/>They are how to include a group of six Sunni lawmakers in the cabinet, and the distribution of government portfolios among the different political parties.<br \/>Credit ratings agency Moody\u2019s last week downgraded Lebanon\u2019s sovereign debt, citing the uncertain movement toward forming a government, and Lebanese bonds have suffered in recent weeks.<br \/>Lebanon is one of the world\u2019s most indebted countries and its finance minister has said it is already in an economic crisis that has started to turn into a financial one, and hopes will not become a monetary one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT: This week will be decisive in efforts to form a new government in Lebanon, prime minister-designate Saad Al-Hariri said on Tuesday, adding he was \u201ccautiously optimistic.\u201dRival parties have been negotiating to form a coalition government since a national election in May, fueling concerns that a crisis is looming for the country\u2019s heavily indebted, stagnant&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31070","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\/31070","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=31070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}