{"id":38688,"date":"2019-04-04T05:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T05:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38688"},"modified":"2019-04-04T05:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T05:22:27","slug":"pence-turkey-purchase-of-russian-missile-system-a-danger-to-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38688","title":{"rendered":"Pence: Turkey purchase of Russian missile system a danger to NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Vice President Mike Pence warned Turkey against going ahead with its planned purchase of the Russian-made S-400 missile system, hours after the Turkish foreign minister said the acquisition was &#8220;a done deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve also made it clear that we&#8217;ll not stand idly by while NATO allies purchase weapons from our adversaries, weapons that threaten the very cohesion of this alliance,&#8221; Pence said Wednesday while addressing the &#8220;NATO Engages&#8221; summit in Washington, DC.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Turkey&#8217;s purchase of a $2.5 billion S-400 anti-aircraft missile system from Russia poses great danger to NATO and to the strength of this alliance,&#8221; he added, saying that Turkey could face consequences for its action.  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Vice President Mike Pence warned Turkey against going ahead with its planned purchase of the Russian-made S-400 missile system, hours after the Turkish foreign minister said the acquisition was &#8220;a done deal.&#8221;&#8221;We&#8217;ve also made it clear that we&#8217;ll not stand idly by while NATO allies purchase weapons from our adversaries, weapons that threaten the very&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38688","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\/38688","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=38688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}