Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani attends a meeting with Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro at Miraflores Palace in Caracas November 25, 2015. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar's emir issued a decree on Wednesday replacing the foreign minister and merging some portfolios, the state news agency said, in what was seen as a move to consolidate his power and cut costs after a sharp drop in oil prices.
The world's biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas, Qatar is one of the Gulf's richest countries, although the value of its energy exports almost halved last year.
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