{"id":76878,"date":"2016-12-05T13:17:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T13:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=05a8b796ea98ef69e428712b2cdd6b18"},"modified":"2016-12-05T13:17:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T13:17:24","slug":"news-story-prime-ministers-visit-to-bahrain-and-the-gulf-co-operation-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=76878","title":{"rendered":"News story: Prime Minister\u2019s visit to Bahrain and the Gulf Co-operation Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Prime Minister Theresa May is attending the annual meeting of leaders from the Gulf Co-operation Council. She will be the first British Prime Minister and only the third Western leader to be invited to attend and address leaders at the summit.<\/p>\n<p>On her 2-day visit to Bahrain, the Prime Minister will seek to open a new chapter in relations between the UK and the Gulf States, which include Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman. She will renew centuries old ties and forge a stronger partnership focussed on security and prosperity with the UK\u2019s third largest export market.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister\u2019s visit follows on from more than 40 bilateral meetings with international leaders in the 5 months since she took office, underlining her commitment to personally ensuring that the UK forges a bold, outward-looking role in the world as we leave the European Union.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"find-out-more-about-the-prime-ministers-visit\">Find out more about the Prime Minister\u2019s visit<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/pm-seeks-to-turbo-charge-trade-between-the-uk-and-the-gulf\">Prime Minister seeks new chapter in relations with the Gulf on visit to Bahrain<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/pm-seeks-to-turbo-charge-trade-between-the-uk-and-the-gulf\">Prime Minister seeks to turbo-charge trade between the UK and the Gulf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister will meet the leaders of the Gulf States to forge a stronger partnership with them focussed on security and prosperity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}