{"id":44643,"date":"2019-10-02T11:21:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T03:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44643"},"modified":"2019-10-02T11:33:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T03:33:56","slug":"britain-to-import-lebanese-products-invest-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44643","title":{"rendered":"Britain To Import Lebanese Products, Invest In Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, Oct 2 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; Britain&#8217;s Trade Envoy to Lebanon, Lord Richard Risby, assured that, his country will facilitate the entry of Lebanese products to the UK. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We will work on importing Lebanese products even after our country&#8217;s exit from the European Union,&#8221; Risby was quoted as saying, during his meeting with Lebanese private sector representatives, at Beirut&#8217;s Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Risby emphasised the need to increase cooperation between the two countries, in technology and knowledge economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Lebanon can benefit much from UK&#8217;s expertise and training sessions in technology,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that Britain is interested in investing in Lebanon, especially in oil and gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We hope that Shell and BP can participate in Lebanon&#8217;s second licensing round, for offshore oil and gas exploration,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Risby also met with President Michel Aoun at the Baabda Palace, where he said his visit reflects Britain&#8217;s interest in Lebanon, by aiming to activate partnership agreements between the two countries.&#8211; NNN-XINHUA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Oct 2 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; Britain&#8217;s Trade Envoy to Lebanon, Lord Richard Risby, assured that, his country will facilitate the entry of Lebanese products to the UK. &#8220;We will work on importing Lebanese products even after our country&#8217;s exit from the European Union,&#8221; Risby was quoted as saying, during his meeting with Lebanese private sector [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":44649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300,209,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44643"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}