{"id":48402,"date":"2024-02-26T16:17:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T06:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=48402"},"modified":"2024-02-26T16:17:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T06:17:10","slug":"qatar-emir-due-in-paris-for-talks-on-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=48402","title":{"rendered":"Qatar emir due in Paris for talks on Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Qatar&#8217;s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, whose country has played the key mediation role in the Gaza war, visits Paris this week for talks with President Emmanuel Macron, the French presidency said Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ruler&#8217;s trip on Tuesday and Wednesday will be his first state visit to France since he became emir of the small but gas-rich and hugely influential emirate in 2013, according to the Elysee.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar has emerged as the key player in mediation between Israel and Hamas to agree a truce in Gaza and release more hostages abducted by the Palestinian militant group in its attack on Israel on October 7.<\/p>\n<p>It hosts the political bureau of Hamas but also enjoys warm relations with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Qatar is notably working on the release of the hostages, which is a priority for us,&#8221; said a French presidential official. Three French nationals are among those still held by Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>The discussions will also focus on &#8220;ongoing efforts to obtain a ceasefire&#8230; and enable massive aid to be provided to the Gazan population,&#8221; added the official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar&#8217;s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, whose country has played the key mediation role in the Gaza war, visits Paris this week for talks with President Emmanuel Macron, the French presidency said Sunday. The ruler&#8217;s trip on Tuesday and Wednesday will be his first state visit to France since he became emir of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[615],"class_list":["post-48402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-qatar-emir-due-in-paris-for-talks-on-gaza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}