Gulf–EU partnership on mediation, energy security essential: Al-Ansari

Doha, Qatar: Qatar has called for a deeper and more structured partnership between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the European Union (EU) in t...

Doha, Qatar: Qatar has called for a deeper and more structured partnership between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the European Union (EU) in the fields of mediation, conflict resolution, and energy security.

Speaking at the Doha Forum 2025 yesterday, Advisor to the Prime Minister and Official Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, H E Dr. Majed Al Ansari, said the Gulf and Europe are natural partners facing increasingly intertwined challenges.

He noted that both regions share long-standing cooperation in investment, economy, and energy, but their relationship now needs to evolve to respond to rapidly changing global realities. “The two blocs, Gulf and EU, enjoy a lot of similarities. They have been working a lot on investment, economy, energy. The issues of our region end up being the issues of Europe. Whether through migration patterns, conflicts, or coalition against terrorism; in all of these issues, we find ourselves neighbors living next to each other and suffering from similar fates with everything that’s happening,” he said.

Dr. Al Ansari stressed that mediation and conflict resolution have emerged as the most promising areas for strengthening partnership. “It is now mainly conflict resolution and mediation where Europe and the Gulf can come together,” he said, pointing to the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the EGC group signed in Doha on Friday. He said the deal was mediated by Norway, Spain and Qatar, demonstrating how cross-regional collaboration can deliver concrete results.

“These consortiums for peace that we need developed from all of these conflicts around the world can only be formed around not only like-minded countries, but those countries that have the capacity, the experience, the financial stability, and the political stability to act as mediators and to act in conflict resolutions. We in Qatar right now are mediating in 10 different conflicts. In Europe, I’m sure, a lot of conflicts are being mediated in different capacities,” he added.