Shura Council Speaker H E Hassan bin Abdullah Al Ghanim chairing the Council’s meeting yesterday.
Doha, Qatar: The Shura Council reviewed the response of the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers to the proposal submitted by the Council on inflation, high costs of living, and increasing financial burdens on citizens, and decided to refer it to the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee to study it and provide the Council with its conclusions during a session chaired by Speaker of the Council H E Hassan bin Abdullah Al Ghanim.
The proposal included a number of themes that would contribute to reducing the effects of inflation, address the problem of high prices of consumer goods, and provide realistic scenarios for addressing the high operational cost of goods and services, including preventing monopoly, increasing the places allocated for commercial activities, supporting basic goods and materials, and supporting the national product to increase production in the local market, review duties and tax policies, and raise awareness of the important role of the merchant and consumer in this aspect.
Meanwhile, the Council welcomed the successful Qatari mediation efforts between Hamas and Israel to allow medicine and humanitarian aid shipment to the civilians in the Gaza Strip.
The Council commended the position of Qatar led by the Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani towards the Palestinian issue and its efforts to support the Palestine, particularly in the Gaza Strip..
The Council also reviewed a draft law to repeal Law No. (2) of 1991 regarding imposing a fee for issuing certificates from the Ministry of Interior and its affiliated agencies, and Law No. (7) of 1991 regarding imposing a fee for issuing certificates from the Ministry of Defence, which was assigned to it by the esteemed government, and decided referring it to the Internal and External Affairs Committee for study and submitting its report thereon to it.
Besides, the Council approved a request to extend the work of the Legal and Legislative Affairs Committee to study a draft law on public and private state property.
The Shura Council also reviewed a report on its participation in the Science for Peace Parliamentary Meeting, which was held in the Republic of Vietnam last September under the title “Water Security and Insecurity: Rebuilding Peaceful Coexistence with Science.”
At the conclusion of the session, Speaker of the Shura Council informed Their Excellencies the members about his meeting with President of the Republic of Tajikistan H E Emomali Rahmon, who was visiting the country. The meeting discussed bilateral relations, particularly those related to parliamentary cooperation and ways to enhance and develop it.
