{"id":48540,"date":"2018-12-03T20:21:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T20:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=48540"},"modified":"2018-12-07T15:51:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T15:51:27","slug":"qatar-quits-from-opec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/qatar-quits-from-opec\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar quits from OPEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-7203\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/OPEC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"449\" \/>Qatar will withdraw from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) as of January, the country\u2019s energy minister announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at a press conference, Saad al-Kaabi said the decision comes after Qatar reviewed ways in which it could improve its global standing and plan its long-term strategy. Qatar has been an OPEC member since 1961.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Gulf state produces 650,000 barrels of oil per day and comes as the world\u2019s number-one exporter of liquefied natural gas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe decision to withdraw from OPEC is purely technical and strategic and has nothing to do with political reasons,\u201d al-Kaabi said, in reference to a Saudi-led blockade on Qatar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In June of last year, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain collectively severed ties with Doha and imposed an embargo &#8212; by air land and sea &#8212; on the Gulf state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Saudi-led axis accuses Doha of supporting terrorist groups in the region &#8212; allegations Qatar strenuously denies.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/qatar-quits-from-opec\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar will withdraw from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) as of January, the country\u2019s energy minister announced on Monday. Speaking at a press conference, Saad al-Kaabi said the decision comes after Qatar reviewed ways in which it could improve its global standing and plan its long-term strategy. Qatar has been an OPEC member &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48541,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48540\/revisions\/48541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}