{"id":87087,"date":"2023-01-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/?guid=95644b0b302967d6a3d8bbcd0d37edbc"},"modified":"2023-01-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T00:00:00","slug":"qatar-should-not-be-dragged-into-eu-corruption-scandal-minister-tells-cnbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/qatar-should-not-be-dragged-into-eu-corruption-scandal-minister-tells-cnbc\/","title":{"rendered":"QATAR SHOULD NOT BE DRAGGED INTO EU CORRUPTION SCANDAL, MINISTER TELLS CNBC"},"content":{"rendered":"
Qatar’s foreign minister said his country should not be dragged into a cash-for-influence corruption scandal at the European Parliament with investigations still ongoing, rejecting allegations of Doha’s involvement as having “no basis”.<\/P>
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“As (the) State of Qatar, we are 100% sure that this premise has no basis. We didn’t see anything (from Belgian authorities). There’s an ongoing investigation. We have to see; we have to wait until the investigation is over,” Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani told CNBC this week.<\/P>
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“This problem is a problem that is happening in Europe for a European institution. It is better for them to look at their own institution and do all the steps required for them and not to drag our country’s name in such a situation,” he added.<\/P>
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Sheikh Mohammed said the Gulf Arab state, one of the world’s top gas exporters, was “disappointed” by and disagreed with a vote by the European Parliament last month to suspend all work on legislation involving Qatar and to bar Qatari representatives from its premises.<\/P>
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“The engagement with the European Union and European Union institutions have been ongoing on geopolitical issues, on energy issues, on a lot of other issues and these kind of resolutions … it’s going to affect the conversation,” he said.<\/P>
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He stressed that Qatar, a major producer of liquefied natural gas, would not politicise energy supplies to Europe under commercial deals with state-owned QatarEnergy.<\/P>
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“We have a track record that we have never missed any shipment, we have never politicised our energy or weaponised our energy as a tool for threatening any other country,” the minister said.<\/P>
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Source: National News Agency – Lebanon<\/P>
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