{"id":19065,"date":"2024-04-19T06:19:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T03:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=19065"},"modified":"2024-04-19T06:19:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T03:19:38","slug":"eu-foreign-policy-chief-saudi-foreign-minister-discuss-tension-in-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/19\/eu-foreign-policy-chief-saudi-foreign-minister-discuss-tension-in-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Foreign Policy chief, Saudi Foreign Minister Discuss Tension in Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU foreign policy chief and the Saudi foreign minister on Thursday spoke over the phone to discuss the latest developments in the Middle East.<br \/>\n&#8220;Timely call with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud on latest developments in the Middle East. Shared sense of urgency to work together on de-escalation and find a sustainable way out of the crisis,&#8221; Josep Borrell, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, said on X.<br \/>\nBorrell stressed that the EU-Gulf Cooperation Council Security Forum in Luxemburg is a &#8220;good occasion&#8221; to take this forward.<br \/>\nThe tension is running high in the Middle East as Iran on Saturday launched an airborne attack on Israel in retaliation for an April 1 airstrike on its diplomatic compound in the Syrian capital.<br \/>\nIt reportedly fired more than 300 drones and missiles, with almost all intercepted by the air defense systems of Israel and its allies \u2013 the US, France and the UK.<br \/>\nIran claimed that some targets were hit. Israel, in turn, said it would respond to Iran&#8217;s attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU foreign policy chief and the Saudi foreign minister on Thursday spoke over the phone to discuss the latest developments in the Middle East. &#8220;Timely call with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud on latest developments in the Middle East. Shared sense of urgency to work together on de-escalation and find &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19082,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19065\/revisions\/19082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}