{"id":15943,"date":"2009-12-17T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T08:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test946983.live-website.com\/?p=15943"},"modified":"2019-12-03T23:24:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T23:24:17","slug":"gulf-cooperation-council-agrees-to-single-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=15943","title":{"rendered":"Gulf Cooperation Council agrees to single currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class='has-larger-font-size'>\n<div class=\"blog-entry-body\">According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/m.gulfnews.com\/news\/gulf\/kuwait\/gulf-monetary-union-pact-somes-into-effect-1.554124\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gulf News article dated 16 December 2009<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcc-sg.org\/\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gulf Cooperation Council<\/a> (GCC) leaders concluded their annual two-day summit with an agreement to form a monetary union, paving the way for a single currency for Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia; Oman and the United Arab Emirates opted out. A monetary council is to be established in early 2010, and will transition into a central bank, which will eventually issue a single currency, though no timeline was announced.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Amirali Somji.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Gulf News article dated 16 December 2009, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders concluded their annual two-day summit with an agreement to form a monetary union, paving the way for a single currency for Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia; Oman and the United Arab Emirates opted out.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=15943\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[165,265,96,202,114,136],"class_list":["entry","author-owen-linzmayer","post-15943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-middle-east","tag-bahrain","tag-kuwait","tag-oman","tag-qatar","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-united-arab-emirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15944,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15943\/revisions\/15944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}