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Doha, Qatar: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Defense Affairs HE Dr. Khalid bin Mohammed Al Attiyah chaired the Cabinet's regular meeting held on Wednesday morning at its seat at the Amiri Diwan.
Following the meeting, HE Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs issued the following statement: The Cabinet considered the topics on its agenda as follows:
First - Approving a draft cabinet decision on the formation of a committee to regulate the ownership of real estate by diplomatic and consular missions in the country and their work system.
The preparation of the draft decision comes in implementation of the provisions of Article 3 of Law No. 3 of 2022 regulating the ownership of real estate by diplomatic and consular missions in the country, by establishing the aforementioned committee at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is concerned with the following:
1- Studying real estate ownership applications submitted by the missions, and submitting recommendations regarding them to the Minister.
2- Proposing any other conditions and regulators for the missions to own or build real estate, and present them to the Minister.
Second - Approving a draft decision of the Minister of Education and Higher Education amending some provisions of Decision No. 42 of 2017 setting the price of schools textbooks and school transport fees for non-Qatari students who are not GCC nationals and exempting them from these fees.
Third - Approving a proposal to increase the non-Qatari investors ownership rate in the capital of Qatar Electricity and Water Company (QEWC), a Qatari public shareholding company listed on the stock exchange.
Under this decision, a non-Qatari investor may own up to 100% of the capital of the company.
Fourth - Approving a draft decision of the Board of Directors of the Qatar Financial Markets Authority (QFMA) on the system for settling disputes arising from transactions related to securities through arbitration.
Fifth - Taking the necessary measures to ratify a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation in the field of environmental protection between the governments of the State of Qatar and the government of Georgia.
Sixth - Approving the following:
1- A draft agreement on the promotion and protection of mutual investments between the government of the State of Qatar and the government of the Dominican Republic.
2- A draft memorandum of cooperation on providing a set of specialized educational vocational programs for primary and early education students between the Ministry of Education and Higher Education and INJAZ Qatar.
Seventh - The Cabinet reviewed the report of the National Cyber Security Agency regarding the launch of the "Cybersecurity Educational Curricula" project, and took the appropriate decision thereon.
