{"id":31303,"date":"2019-01-31T20:23:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T20:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31303"},"modified":"2019-01-31T20:23:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T20:23:30","slug":"europe-launches-sanctions-busting-iran-payment-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31303","title":{"rendered":"Europe launches sanctions-busting Iran payment vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"81\">\n<p>\nDEAD SEA, JORDAN: Top diplomats from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt and Jordan concluded talks on Thursday aimed at coordinating\u00a0policy on the multiple conflicts gripping the region.<\/p>\n<p>\nJordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said the ministers \u201cexchanged views on regional issues and ways of cooperation to overcome regional crises,&#8221; without providing additional details.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nThe meeting at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Center on the Dead Sea also covered the goal of achieving security and stability in the interest of Arab\u00a0benefit.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nThe six-hour talks were \u201cpositive, constructive, and allowed a wide dialogue with an open agenda on the developments in the region and ways to face common challenges and enhance cooperation and coordination to serve Arab issues and interests,\u201d Safadi said.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe described the meetings as a &#8220;consultation between brothers and friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe talks were attended by Saudi Arabia\u2019s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Al-Jubeir, along with foreign ministers from the other countries, Saudi Press Agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe talks came just two weeks before a planned US-Polish conference on the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said the conference will look at &#8220;making sure Iran is not a destabilizing influence&#8221;, although a senior US official has insisted it is &#8220;not an anti-Iran meeting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Dead Sea meeting also came amid debate over the return of Syria to the Arab League, which suspended Damascus&#8217;s membership in November 2011 as President Bashar Al-Assad has emerged victorious from nearly eight years of deadly conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\nSeveral Arab states, including Lebanon and Tunisia, have called for Syria&#8217;s return.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn December, Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir made the first visit to Damascus by an Arab leader since 2011, and the UAE reopened its embassy.<\/p>\n<p>\n*With AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEAD SEA, JORDAN: Top diplomats from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt and Jordan concluded talks on Thursday aimed at coordinating\u00a0policy on the multiple conflicts gripping the region. Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said the ministers \u201cexchanged views on regional issues and ways of cooperation to overcome regional crises,&#8221; without providing additional&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31303","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\/31303","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=31303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}