New Yor: Qatar reiterated its support for the United Nations programmes to face climate challenges and combat terrorism, and indicated that it has strengthened its efforts at the national level to address terrorism and its financing, and has developed its cooperation with international partners and its active participation in international and regional arrangements, stressing its effective partnership with the United Nations.
This came in the statement of the Qatar delivered by Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations H E Ambassador Sheikha Alya bint Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani in the high-level meeting of the UN Security Council on “Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Security in the context of Terrorism and Climate Change”.
The statement stressed that Qatar pays attention to the multifaceted threats of terrorism and its links to other risks, such as financing of terrorism and human trafficking, noting Qatar’s support for the programmes on which the United Nations bodies are based to enhance the capabilities of member states to confront this hateful scourge.
Regarding climate change, the statement indicated that Qatar had taken many tangible steps to confront this threat, whether at the national or international levels, which was embodied in its hosting of the18th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2012.
The statement also referred to the active participation Qatar in the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) in Glasgow, in which Qatar participated with a delegation headed by Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. The statement noted Qatar's launching of the initiative to establish the Global Drylands Alliance, which is one of the international mechanisms aimed at confronting climate change, adding that Qatar has recently reported its Nationally Determined Contribution, which reflect the level of ambition it seeks to achieve, in order to achieve adaptation to climate change and mitigate its effects.
It also pointed to Qatar’s contribution of $100m to support least developed countries and small island developing states to address climate change, which was announced by H H the Amir at the Climate Action Summit 2019.
In this context, Qatar’s statement said that the issue of addressing climate change and its consequences will be among the prominent issues to be addressed in the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) that will take place in Qatar, from Jan. 23 to 27, 2022
