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The Qatari Emiri Naval Forces (QENF) marked the completion of the last of four ships ordered from Anadolu Shipyard in Tuzla, Turkey. The landing vessels will undergo six weeks of tests before being delivered to Qatar.

GSN Risk Grade: B↑1. Methane emissions. QatarEnergy joined the Aiming for Zero Methane Emissions Initiative on 27 June, adding its weight to the aim of reaching near-zero methane emissions from operated oil and gas assets by 2030. It

Qatar Museums chair Sheikha Al-Mayassa Bint Hamad Al-Thani criticised international press coverage of her country.  Global media interest in Qatar has been heightened by the football World Cup, which will be held in the country in November and December.

Leaders from across the Arab Gulf states and Egypt have been travelling around the region to heal fractures and head off the perceived threat from Iran’s nuclear ambitions, amid speculation that more GCC member states could move towards normalisation with Israel when US President Joe Biden comes to the region.

Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council chairman Rashad Al-Alimi has also been on a regional tour - visiting Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar - as a recently-extended truce with the Houthi rebels continues to hold.

Gulf sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are flexing their muscles again, with logistics now a key focus. While high oil prices have bolstered Gulf funds, their recovery began before prices shot up this year.

Gulf Co-operation Council countries formally launched the process to negotiate a free trade agreement (FTA) with the UK. The GCC is the UK’s seventh largest export market.

QatarEnergy’s selection of TotalEnergies as its first partner on the expansion of the North Field comes amid an intense period of upstream and midstream activity, with the region’s hydrocarbons heavyweights investing billions to ensure they remain world leaders in oil and gas production for decades to come.

UK international trade minister Ranil Jayawardena visited Doha in early June, where he met commerce and industry minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Hamad Bin Jassim Al-Thani. Jayawardena was also hosted by the Syrian-Qatari Al-Khayyat brothers, Ramez and Moutaz.

Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani has avoided a potential private prosecution in the UK courts over allegations that the Qatari state had funded violent groups in Syria.

The United States is reportedly drawing up plans for a defence co-operation agreement between Israel and the six Gulf Co-operation Council states, as well as Egypt, Jordan and Iraq, to counter the perceived threat from Iran.

Iran Trade Centre in Doha will initially focus on trade in areas including medicines, food and building materials; it will also work to promote medical tourism to Iran.

Former United States ambassador to the UAE and Pakistan Richard Olson pleaded guilty on 3 June to lobbying Washington illegally on behalf of Qatar in 2017. He is due to be sentenced on 13 September.

Turkey’s Ares Shipyard said it had won a contract to provide its Ares 40 Fast Interceptor Craft to the Qatar Coast Guard. Meanwhile, the Al-Shamal training ship arrived in Doha on 9 June, built by another Turkish firm, Anadolu Shipyard.

Kasia Gallanio, a former partner of Sheikh Abdelaziz Bin Khalifa Al-Thani (uncle of Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani), has been found dead at her home in Marbella, Spain. European media suggested she had died of a drugs overdose, although autopsy results are not yet known.