{"id":37877,"date":"2019-03-29T03:23:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T03:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37877"},"modified":"2019-03-29T03:23:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T03:23:32","slug":"russia-military-personnel-are-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37877","title":{"rendered":"Russia: Military personnel are in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Moscow (CNN)<\/cite>Russia acknowledged Thursday that it has military personnel in Venezuela, which is facing political turmoil and a humanitarian crisis, saying the deployment is legal and does not alter the delicate balance of power in the region. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In a briefing Thursday in Moscow, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said &#8220;Russian specialists&#8221; were on Venezuelan soil but declared their deployment to be &#8220;in accordance with the provisions of the bilateral intergovernmental agreement on military-technical cooperation&#8221; between Moscow and Caracas.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Asked at the briefing by CNN how long they would be deployed, she replied that the personnel would remain in Venezuela &#8220;for as long as needed, and as long as the government of Venezuela needs them.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow (CNN)Russia acknowledged Thursday that it has military personnel in Venezuela, which is facing political turmoil and a humanitarian crisis, saying the deployment is legal and does not alter the delicate balance of power in the region. In a briefing Thursday in Moscow, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said &#8220;Russian specialists&#8221; were on Venezuelan soil&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37877","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=37877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}