{
  "id": 4722553,
  "title": "Minister of Finance meets French Minister of Economy, Finance",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/minister-of-finance-meets-french-minister-of-economy-finance",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-31T21:57:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Peninsula Qatar",
    "slug": "the-peninsula-qatar",
    "url": "https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/01/09/2026/minister-of-finance-meets-french-minister-of-economy-finance"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Minister of Finance, HE Ali bin Ahmed Al Kuwari, met with the French Minister of Economy, Finance, Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, HE Roland Lescure, on the sidelines of the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting in the US. They discussed key issues of mutual interest in the economic and financial fields.\n\nThe meeting aimed to strengthen cooperation and explore opportunities to enhance bilateral economic and financial relations between Qatar and France.\n\nAccording to Le Monde English, a key figure of France's Fifth Republic, who was not involved in this meeting, has died at the age of 97. There were also separate reports of US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent meeting with Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov to discuss a possible end to the war in Ukraine.",
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  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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        "published": "2026-08-31T19:10:00.000Z"
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        "published": "2026-08-31T19:45:00.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}