{"id":5769,"date":"2025-02-14T04:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gz.foundation\/language\/?p=5769"},"modified":"2026-03-07T14:19:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:19:56","slug":"colombian-president-holds-meeting-with-emir-of-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gz.foundation\/language\/colombian-president-holds-meeting-with-emir-of-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombian President holds meeting with Emir of Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By: Yanela Soler\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doha, Qatar &#8211; Colombian President Gustavo Petro met on Thursday with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, as part of his official visit to the Gulf nation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The leaders held talks shortly after President Petro&#8217;s arrival in Doha on February 13. The meeting focused on bilateral cooperation agreements on education, air connectivity and access to clean water.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Petro requested Qatar&#8217;s mediation to secure the release of Elkana Bohbot, a Colombian-Israeli citizen held by Hamas since October 7, 2023.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI have established friendly ties with the Emir of Qatar and requested his mediation for the release of Bohbot,\u201d President Petro said on social media platform X following their talks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddf6\ud83c\udde6 A su llegada a Catar, el presidente <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petrogustavo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@petrogustavo<\/a> se reuni\u00f3 con el emir, Tamim Bin Hamad Althani para adelantar la agenda bilateral entre ambos pa\u00edses. <br><br>\ud83d\udd4a\ufe0fUno de los temas m\u00e1s importantes fue la solicitud del presidente Petro al emir catar\u00ed para que pueda interceder en la\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G31e15v1qU\">pic.twitter.com\/G31e15v1qU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; RTVC Noticias (@RTVCnoticias) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RTVCnoticias\/status\/1890060239669461319?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Colombian leader emphasized his administration&#8217;s strategy to strengthen ties with the Arab world through newly appointed ambassadors of Arab-Colombian heritage to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and Lebanon. \u00abWe seek to enhance commercial, tourist, cultural and political relations to unite our peoples and broaden our global perspective,\u00bb he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the other hand, both government representatives addressed the issue of Qatar Airways, which will begin operations to cover the Doha-Bogota route next June. According to Petro, this way \u201ctourism and business opportunities between both countries will be strengthened\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI have already managed to attract two airlines in the area to Colombia: Qatar Airways and Emirates. I seek to diversify the ownership of Colombia&#8217;s foreign debt as much as possible,\u201d said the Colombian president. President Petro said the talks had been productive in advancing Colombia&#8217;s strategic interests in the Middle East, while addressing urgent humanitarian concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Yanela Soler\u00a0 Doha, Qatar &#8211; Colombian President Gustavo Petro met on Thursday with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gz.foundation\/language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gz.foundation\/language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gz.foundation\/language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gz.foundation\/language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gz.foundation\/language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5769"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gz.foundation\/language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5772,"href":"https:\/\/gz.foundation\/language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769\/revisions\/5772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gz.foundation\/language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gz.foundation\/language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gz.foundation\/language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gz.foundation\/language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}