{"id":34143,"date":"2021-05-19T11:39:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T07:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=34143"},"modified":"2021-05-19T11:39:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T07:39:33","slug":"lebanons-foreign-minister-asks-to-quit-after-comments-strained-gulf-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2021\/05\/19\/lebanons-foreign-minister-asks-to-quit-after-comments-strained-gulf-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon\u2019s foreign minister asks to quit, after comments strained Gulf ties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lebanon\u2019s caretaker foreign minister asked the president to be relieved of his duties on Wednesday, the presidency wrote on Twitter, after his comments in a television interview strained ties with his country\u2019s traditional Gulf Arab allies and donors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charbel Wehbe, who is a minister in Lebanon\u2019s caretaker government, stoked tensions with remarks on Monday that suggested Gulf states had supported the rise of ISIS and other disparaging comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain summoned Lebanon\u2019s ambassadors and issued formal complaints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After meeting President Michel Aoun, Wehbe said he had submitted a request to step down \u201cin light of the recent developments and the circumstances that accompanied the interview I gave to a television station\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Arabiya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon\u2019s caretaker foreign minister asked the president to be relieved of his duties on Wednesday, the presidency wrote on Twitter, after his comments in a television interview strained ties with his country\u2019s traditional Gulf Arab allies and donors. Charbel Wehbe, who is a minister in Lebanon\u2019s caretaker government, stoked tensions with remarks on Monday that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34145,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34143\/revisions\/34145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}