{"id":1297,"date":"2023-09-30T10:12:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T10:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2023-09-30T10:12:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T10:12:57","slug":"pakistan-and-the-gulf-cooperation-council-gcc-have-concluded-negotiations-on-a-free-trade-agreement-fta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=1297","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have concluded negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/896966681696049381.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/896966681696049381.jpg 850w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/896966681696049381-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/896966681696049381-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At the completion of their final round of negotiations in Riyadh, Dr. Gohar Ejaz, Minister for Commerce and Industry, and Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi, Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, signed a joint statement in this respect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both sides expressed their eagerness for the Agreement&#8217;s quick signing, ratification, and implementation in a joint statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agreement will now go through an internal administrative and approval process before being signed and coming into effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a significant development because it is the GCC&#8217;s first free trade agreement with a nation since 2009 and it represents a turning point in the economic cooperation between the two sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the completion of their final round of negotiations in Riyadh, Dr. Gohar Ejaz, Minister for Commerce and Industry, and Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi, Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomacy-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}