{"id":2224,"date":"2017-06-09T14:28:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T14:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2017-06-09T14:28:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T14:28:45","slug":"uae-and-saudi-arabia-seek-qatari-change-in-policy-not-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/06\/09\/uae-and-saudi-arabia-seek-qatari-change-in-policy-not-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE AND SAUDI ARABIA SEEK QATARI \u201cCHANGE IN POLICY, NOT LEADERSHIP\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/QATAR-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2225\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/QATAR-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/QATAR-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/QATAR-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/QATAR-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/QATAR-2-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/QATAR-2-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/QATAR-2-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : The National<\/p>\n<p>By Suha Maayeh and Taimur Khan<\/p>\n<p>The severing of diplomatic ties and partial blockade against Qatar by the UAE and Saudi Arabia are not aimed at forcing a change in leadership, the UAE said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not about regime change \u2014 this is about change of policy, change of approach,&#8221; said Dr Anwar Gargash, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. &#8220;The government of Qatar is in denial,&#8221; he added, calling Qatar &#8220;the main champion of extremism and terrorism in the region&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Gargash spoke ahead of the arrival in the UAE of the emir of Kuwait for talks on the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Sabah, has embarked on a round of shuttle diplomacy, beginning with a meeting with King Salman in Jeddah on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/world\/middle-east\/uae-and-saudi-seek-qatari-change-in-policy-not-leadership#full<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : The National By Suha Maayeh and Taimur Khan The severing of diplomatic ties and partial blockade against Qatar by the UAE and Saudi Arabia are not aimed at forcing a change in leadership, the UAE said on Wednesday. &#8220;This is not about regime change \u2014 this is about change of policy, change of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/06\/09\/uae-and-saudi-arabia-seek-qatari-change-in-policy-not-leadership\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UAE AND SAUDI ARABIA SEEK QATARI \u201cCHANGE IN POLICY, NOT LEADERSHIP\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[367,475,171,203],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kuwait","tag-qatar","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-uae","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2226,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions\/2226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}