Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani speaks at a session during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos yesterday.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani urged the international community to stop Israeli violations against the Palestinian people.
"We would like to see the same world stand for these kinds of causes because unfortunately we still see them unaddressed and continuing," said the Deputy Prime Minister while taking part in a high level panel discussion at 53rd World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos yesterday.
“There is a very big concern in the region with what’s happening in Palestine with all these provocative policies. We would like to see a real stand from our allies and partners to stop the Israeli government from taking such actions. And this is applied also to the suffering of the Syrian people and others. We would really want to see an end for this war in Ukraine and see everyone abiding with the charter of United Nations. We want to see an end of the suffering of the Ukrainian people as soon as possible as well as other people in the world.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs shared video clips of the Forum on its Twitter account.
Responding to a question, he said: “Regarding our role in the conflicts resolution, it’s not an easy job. It’s maybe a difficult journey to bring parties with disagreements together to reach an agreement, but it’s also more difficult to sustain the agreement.”
The Deputy PM added: “We are looking at the world, mobilising only for specific cases and specific causes, and we’ve been in the Middle East suffering for decades from all violations for UN Charter, including the Palestinian-Israeli issue and the Syrian issue and a lot of other things going on.
He also said it’s unfair for a lot of developing countries to demand them not to develop their own resources and not to be energy independent while they are still in need for their development journey.
“A lot of countries around the world are seeing the wealthier countries being unfair for them in demanding them to stop to develop their own resources.” He said Qatar believes gas is a safer, cleaner and more reliable source of energy. “We believe that the gas will remain relevant and the destination of fuel, and this is very important in the energy mix for the next decades to come.”
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani added: “Now when it comes to the transition agenda unfortunately a lot of the policy makers, they have set unattainable goals like very aspirational goals that they didn’t realise that this will take time and significant amount of investment. And also, they stopped or didn’t allow investments in the last ten years probably and we have seen this energy poverty unfortunately has been accelerated because of the war in Ukraine, it is a result of these policies.
“So, I believe that this under investment that Qatar didn’t follow luckily allowed us now to have this additional capacity which will become online in 2027 in order to bring more gas to the market and specially to Europe.”
The Deputy PM also said that recent measures by the Taliban have been very disappointing. “We’ve been warning them from taking such a decisions that are going to make the situation much worse for the Afghan people, and for the international community to deal with them.”
