{"id":8675,"date":"2013-06-25T05:53:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T05:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/qatar-emir-hands-power-to-son\/"},"modified":"2013-06-25T05:53:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T05:53:08","slug":"qatar-emir-hands-power-to-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/qatar-emir-hands-power-to-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar Emir Hands Power to Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Qatar&#8217;s emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani handed power on Tuesday to his son, Crown Prince Sheikh Tamim, taking the rare step for a Gulf Arab ruler of voluntarily ceding power to try to ensure a smooth succession.}}<\/p>\n<p>But the 61-year-old emir made no immediate mention of the public face of Qatar&#8217;s assertive foreign policy, prime minister and foreign minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim, a veteran politician who had been expected also to step down.<\/p>\n<p>In a seven-minute speech aired on state television, the emir said it was time for a new generation to take over following his 18 years at the helm of the small, rich state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The time has come to open a new page in the journey of our nation that would have a new generation carry the responsibilities &#8230; with their innovative ideas,&#8221; said Sheikh Hamad, reading a prepared text behind his desk, where Qatar&#8217;s deep red and white flag was perched nearby.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I address you today to inform you that I will transfer power to Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani. I am fully confident that he is qualified for the responsibility and is trustworthy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>State television later showed streams of well wishers greeting the outgoing emir and Sheikh Tamim at the royal court.<\/p>\n<p>The emir did not specify when the change would take effect but a Qatari official had said the move, once announced, would take immediate effect.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3048 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kop-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{agencies}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Qatar&#8217;s emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani handed power on Tuesday to his son, Crown Prince Sheikh Tamim, taking the rare step for a Gulf Arab ruler of voluntarily ceding power to try to ensure a smooth succession.}} But the 61-year-old emir made no immediate mention of the public face of Qatar&#8217;s assertive foreign policy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-8675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8675"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8675"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}