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Following Emirati foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s visit to Canada in early March for talks with the Canadian premier Stephen Harper and foreign minister John Baird (GSN 919/10), Baird was due in Saudi Arabia and Qatar this week for meetings with officials.

Emir Sheikh Hamad was in Riyadh for talks in early March, accompanied by his son Sheikh Jassim (his personal representative) and foreign minister and premier Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jaber Al Thani.

CP NAYEF: To Morocco; ABDELAZIZ BIN SATTAM: Economist quote; MILITARY PRINCES: Exercises; ABDELAZIZ BIN SALMAN: India trip; AL MISHARI: Marriage

Emirati foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has been on an official visit to Canada, where he met Prime Minister Stephen Harper and foreign minister John Baird.

SULTAN BIN TURKI: Surgery; PRINCE SALMAN: Indian visit; KING ABDULLAH: Out and about

British tabloid The Sun reported on 18 February that a London hotel is to sue a Qatari sheikh over an unpaid bill of more than £500,000. The paper said 43-year-old Sheikh Talal Bin Abdelaziz Bin Ahmed Bin Ali Al Thani had rented suites costing £3,500 a night at the Wyndham Grand in London’s Chelsea Harbour.

Culture minister Sheikha Mai Bint Mohammed Al Khalifa was in Paris on 20 February for the re-opening of the Institut du Monde Arabe after a three-year revamp in which it extended its Islamic art collections to cover all aspects of the Arab world.

The daughter of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has married

CROWN PRINCE: Wedding

Deputy foreign minister Prince Abdelaziz Bin Abdullah was in London on 26 January for the opening of the Hajj exhibition at the British Museum.

Leading members of the Al Thani ruling family have been busy as ever. On 7 February, Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani received Pakistani prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and his delegation, which included the foreign minister and a special assistant on petroleum.

Prince Talal Bin Abdelaziz, father of billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed, has played down his land holdings, comparing himself to others he said had 500m square metres. “I do not have more than 40,000 square metres of land in my country, only the land of my house and around some small pieces,” he wrote on Twitter, calling for a “package of reforms”. Talal is known to be outspoken, and in November resigned from the Allegiance Council.

MASHAEL BINT FAISAL: Abu Dhabi visit; MITEB BIN ABDULLAH: Field exercises; FAISAL BIN ABDULLAH: Scouting honour; MISHAAL BIN ABDELAZIZ: Camel festival; MISHAAL BIN ABDULLAH: Bahrain diplomacy

Several Gulf royals visisted Morocco in December, according to Moroccan newspaper L’Economiste

Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani was ushered out of Mauritania without the usual courtesies, according to media sources in the country