Qatar participates in Arab League workshop on China-Arab States Cooperation Forum

Cairo: Qatar participated yesterday in a specialized workshop titled China Arab States Cooperation Forum (CASCF).. marking 20 years, organized by th...

Cairo: Qatar participated yesterday in a specialized workshop titled ‘China-Arab States Cooperation Forum (CASCF).. marking 20 years,’ organized by the Secretariat General of Arab League’s Media and Communication Sector (department of research and strategic studies), at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Arab League in Cairo, in collaboration with the tahreer center for studies and research.

Director of the Arab Affairs Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs H E Nayef bin Abdullah Al Emadi represented the State of Qatar at the workshop.

In his opening speech, Nayef bin Abdullah Al Emadi highlighted the strengthened political relations between Arab countries collectively and the People’s Republic of China, amidst increasing international interest in Asia, with the Arab League not being an exception, as it recognized early on the importance of diversifying partnerships through turning eastwards and enhancing cooperation with influential countries in Asia, notably the People’s Republic of China.    

He added that against this backdrop, this forum is taking place with the aim of providing an important institutional framework for collective cooperation, with mechanisms extending to senior officials and ministerial levels, adding that this culminated in holding the first China-Arab States Summit in Riyadh in 2022, which encompassed various fields: political, economic, cultural, media, and developmental cooperation, and had a positive impact on the expansion of trade relations between Arab countries and China, now one of their largest trading partners.

Regarding the State of Qatar’s relations with the People’s Republic of China, Director of the Arab Affairs Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Nayef bin Abdullah Al Emadi pointed out that bilateral relations have continuously grown since the visit of Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to Beijing in 2019, followed by subsequent visits by Qatari officials and the signing of agreements opening new prospects for bilateral relations, making Qatar the primary source of natural gas to China.