Qatar’s increasing role in the global community Wednesday, 06 October 2010 04:03

As a Qatari citizen and Arab, Qatar’s prominent and interesting role at the present session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), the largest gathering of world leaders, brought me distinct pride. Qatar’s role in resolving regional conflicts, efforts toward supporting international peace and security, and provision of creative initiatives to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) garnered the focus and attention of international media. The last of these initiatives that Qatar launched in the UN was to build an alliance aimed at strengthening food security. This success reflects important implications because it stems from the national leadership’s vision, which continues to play an exemplary role achieving remarkable success in helping various parties resolve intractable crises such as the Lebanese crisis, war in Yemen, Darfur, and other issues.

H H the Emir’s speech in front of world leaders at the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly of the UN was a historic testimony reflecting an integrated, structured political vision at domestic, regional and international levels. Such was evident from the clarity of ideas and positions put forward by H H the Emir. Particularly, I was struck by H H the Emir’s emphasis in his speech to the General Assembly that Arab countries will not accept the peace that Israel wants to impose according to its whims and outside international legitimacy. A just peace in this context means the need to ensure the rights of the Palestinian people, the establishment of a Palestinian state, and Jerusalem as its capital, which confirms the strength of Qatar’s position in support of the Palestinian people’s rights and its vital role as an actor in the Arab and international community.

Qatar’s increasing presence abroad as witnessed in global summits at all levels reaffirms the success of the wise direction of Qatar’s leadership, which has led to country’s growing role on regional and international levels. Such is displayed in Qatar’s benevolent, tireless, and fruitful efforts to resolve conflicts in the region from Lebanon to Yemen, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia, along with supporting the Palestinian cause, and the humanitarian campaign to lift the unjust siege on the Gaza Strip, and other countless issues.

H H Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al-Missned’s address to the high-level roundtable meeting on the key role of education in the MDG placed strong emphasis on the need for universal access to quality education because it is the basis for the future. We must protect students, schools, and teachers as we must protect our civilisation.

Undoubtedly, Qatar’s global role grows day by day since its leadership successfully built a modern legislative state guaranteeing citizens’ freedom and promoting paths to comprehensive reform, led by H H the Emir, to place Qataris at the forefront of priorities.

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