{"id":80068,"date":"2017-03-27T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6679a0655180ba8c548ff65a9340e51d"},"modified":"2017-03-27T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T19:31:00","slug":"press-release-pm-meeting-with-the-prime-minister-of-qatar-27-march-2017-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=80068","title":{"rendered":"Press release: PM meeting with the Prime Minister of Qatar: 27 March 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A Downing Street spokesperson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Prime Minister welcomed His Excellency Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser Al Thani, Prime Minister of Qatar, to Downing Street this afternoon for a bilateral meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister May welcomed the close relationship between the 2 countries. And she reiterated the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/speeches\/prime-ministers-speech-to-the-gulf-co-operation-council-2016\">commitment she made at the Gulf Co-operation Council summit<\/a> in December to step up the UK\u2019s relationship with the Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>They discussed our growing trade and investment partnership, and agreed that the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.events.trade.gov.uk\/qatar-uk-business-and-investment-forum-birmingham\/\">Qatar-UK Business and Investment Forum<\/a> taking place in London and Birmingham this week will provide opportunities to deepen these ties.<\/p>\n<p>They also agreed on the importance of our security co-operation, and committed to strengthening our collaboration on cyber security and defence.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, they discussed regional issues, and the importance of securing lasting political settlements in Syria and Yemen, while ensuring humanitarian assistance reaches those in need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">They ended by looking forward to the Gulf Co-operation Council Summit to be hosted by the UK later this year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Theresa May met with His Excellency Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser Al Thani, the Prime Minister of Qatar.<\/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\/80068"}],"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=80068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80112,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80068\/revisions\/80112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}