{"id":39450,"date":"2019-05-21T17:22:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T17:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39450"},"modified":"2019-05-21T17:22:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T17:22:45","slug":"un-envoy-warns-of-long-and-bloody-war-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39450","title":{"rendered":"UN envoy warns of \u2018long and bloody war\u2019 in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"49\">\n<p>\nDUBAI: Bahrain said Tuesday a peace conference it is co-hosting next month with the US is aimed at helping the Palestinians, who have criticized the kingdom for failing to consult them about the event.<br \/>The conference \u201cserves no other purpose\u201d than to help the Palestinian people \u201cthrough developing their abilities and enhancing their resources,\u201d said Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa.<br \/>The kingdom \u201cremains supportive of the brotherly Palestinian people in restoring their legitimate rights on their land as well as establishing an independent state with east Jerusalem as its capital,\u201d Bahrain\u2019s top diplomat said in a statement.<br \/>The White House announced Sunday it would co-host the June 25-26 conference with Bahrain focusing on economic aspects of the long-delayed US peace plan, with the declared aim of achieving Palestinian prosperity.<br \/>\u201cWe were not consulted by any party on the announced meeting to take place in Manama, Bahrain,\u201d Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said in a statement.<br \/>\u201cWe have not mandated any party to negotiate on our behalf.\u201d<br \/>The Palestinians have boycotted the US administration since President Donald Trump broke with decades of consensus and recognized Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital in December 2017.<br \/>They consider the eastern part of the city the capital of their future state and have shown little interest in the US peace plan, which they fear will be heavily biased in favor of Israel.<br \/>Dubbed \u201cPeace for Prosperity,\u201d the conference is expected to bring together leaders from several governments, civil society and the business sector.<br \/>Trump\u2019s office said the conference was a \u201cpivotal opportunity&#8230; to share ideas, discuss strategies, and galvanize support for potential economic investments and initiatives that could be made possible by a peace agreement.\u201d<br \/>The Palestinians see this as offering financial rewards in exchange for accepting ongoing Israeli occupation.<br \/>\u201cAttempts at promoting an economic normalization of the Israeli occupation of Palestine will be rejected,\u201d Erekat said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Bahrain said Tuesday a peace conference it is co-hosting next month with the US is aimed at helping the Palestinians, who have criticized the kingdom for failing to consult them about the event.The conference \u201cserves no other purpose\u201d than to help the Palestinian people \u201cthrough developing their abilities and enhancing their resources,\u201d said Foreign&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39450","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\/39450","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=39450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}