{"id":77686,"date":"2017-01-04T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=524046ad97bc4715eebb1931ee679469"},"modified":"2017-01-04T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T10:15:00","slug":"news-story-chancellor-set-to-strengthen-economic-relations-with-gulf-allies-in-new-year-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=77686","title":{"rendered":"News story: Chancellor set to strengthen economic relations with Gulf allies in New Year tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The two-day trip begins in Kuwait today (Wednesday 4 January 2017), where the Chancellor Philip Hammond is due to meet with senior political leaders including the Acting Prime Minister, Finance Minister and Central Bank Governor, as well as the Kuwait Investment Authority to discuss strengthening trade and investment opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>In the <abbr title=\"United Arab Emirates\">UAE<\/abbr> he will hold talks with Abu Dhabi\u2019s biggest sovereign wealth funds and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, where BP signed a major mutual investment agreement only last month.<\/p>\n<p>In Qatar Mr Hammond is set to meet his Finance Minister counterpart, the Qatar Investment Authority, the Governor of Qatar Central Bank and hold talks with some of Qatar\u2019s largest banks and investors.<\/p>\n<p>The visit is part of a series of international trips taken by senior government ministers to showcase the UK\u2019s commitment to forming even stronger global economic, investment and security ties as we prepare to leave the <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>The Chancellor\u2019s visits build on the Prime Minister\u2019s and Foreign Secretary\u2019s trips to the Gulf last month.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after arriving in the Gulf, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As we leave the <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr>, Britain\u2019s future prosperity requires us to maintain the strongest possible economic links with our European neighbours, while enhancing our existing partnerships with the wider world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">There is huge potential to expand our economic and investment relationships with our Gulf allies in the future and in the last few weeks we\u2019ve seen a number of significant investments into the UK which are a real vote of confidence that together we can seize the opportunities that lie ahead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor meets with senior leaders in Kuwait, UAE and Qatar to strengthen relations, trade links and economic ties with Gulf countries.<\/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\/77686"}],"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=77686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}