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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Doha on 11 September for the latest round of peace talks between the Taliban and Afghan government hosted by Qatar. The discussions kicked off the following day (to avoid falling on the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the US), led by High Council for National Reconciliation chairman Abdullah Abdullah for the Afghan government and Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.

Qatar
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With signs of improved relations between Bahrain and Qatar on the cards, GSN looks back through the archives at the fluctuating relationship between the too often feuding neighbours.

Bahrain | Qatar
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Qatar has invested heavily in Europe’s largest economy, favouring large investments in companies with high political value or systemic importance.

Qatar
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Sheikh Jassim Bin Hamad Bin Jassim Al-Thani’s emergence as a bidder to buy Manchester United FC has thrust the banker into the global limelight, while also posing questions about the balance of power and wealth in the opaque world of Qatari politics, which his father Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim (HBJ) dominated for so many years.

Qatar
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The Saudi authorities continue to expend substantial energy on supressing criticism on social media about government policies, using an army of ‘flies’, made up of automated accounts, stolen accounts and paid sympathisers.

Saudi Arabia
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Newcastle United says it is considering what further action to take following a decision by the English Premier League to reject a takeover bid for the club by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and others. In a 9 September statement the club said it had supplied “overwhelming evidence and legal opinions that PIF is independent and autonomous of the Saudi Arabian government”.

Saudi Arabia
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The UAE has been scaling back its military commitment to Yemen, in an unannounced move which appears to have been at least partly prompted by the Hodeidah peace agreement between the Houthi rebels and the Saudi-backed government of President Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi signed in Stockholm in December.

Yemen | United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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Politics: Al-Thanis have ruled since the mid-19th century, reinforced by British recognition of their right to govern. 25 years after independence in 1971, the peninsula gained hugely in power, confidence and wealth with ‘Father Emir’ Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani’s drive to develop gas reserves. The population has boomed, from around 111,000 in 1970 to 2.2m-plus today (85%-90% expatriate), almost exclusively concentrated in Doha. Between 1995 and 2013, Sheikh Hamad and prime minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim remodelled Qatar as an ultra-modern independent-minded city state, funded by extreme wealth.

Qatar
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Qatar’s predictable,and probably inevitable decision to reject the list of 13 demands made of it by its Gulf Co-operation Council adversaries – Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE (dubbed by GSN the GCC-3, also known as the Troika) – and Egypt suggests the conflict will drag on for much longer than its second month. Economists believe Doha can see out a protracted boycott, barring a still unlikely military intervention that Qatar’s much smaller forces would find hard to oppose – despite the recent Turkish deployment, and talk of closer relations with Iran, which could have catastrophic consequences for the region, as the Qataris well know.

Qatar
Issue 1039 - 23 June 2017

Qatar: The media strikes back

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The initial reaction of Qatari-funded Arabic language media was somewhat measured when Doha’s spat with its three major Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC-3) partner/adversaries first surfaced. Their emphasis was that Qatar New Agency had been hacked and that the controversial items that had been published on QNA were clearly not Doha’s official position. News items and comments emanating from channels like Al-Jazeera Arabic and Al-Araby TV, as well as Qatari print newspapers, expressed surprise that rival media outlets like the Saudi-funded Al-Arabiya or UAE-controlled Sky News Arabia were still running stories that did not take into account Doha’s clarifications.

Qatar
Issue 1147 - 20 May 2022

UAE: First dirham-denominated bonds

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The Ministry of Finance announced on 11 May it had raised AED1.5bn ($408m) in its first local currency-denominated bond auction.

United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Issue 1137 - 25 November 2021

UAE: China concerns cloud F-35 deal

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 Work on an alleged Chinese military facility inside a container terminal building at Khalifa Port, Abu Dhabi has been stopped, after United States intelligence agencies raised concerns with the UAE earlier this year, according to a Wall Street Journal report on 19 November. The UAE authorities claim to be unaware that the building – which is operated by Chinese shipping corporation Cosco – might be used for military purposes.

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The UAE federal government raised $4bn in its debut bond sale in early October. The issuance was heavily over-subscribed, with orders of more than $22.5bn. It was split into three parts, with a $1bn, ten-year tranche; a $1bn, 20-year portion; and a $2bn tranche with a 40-year tenor.

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Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum (MBR) announced a reshuffle of the federal cabinet on 25 September, alongside what he termed “a new government strategic approach that will lay the foundations of work for the next 50 years”.

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Opec member states gathering for their next meeting on 30 November will be keeping a close watch on the UAE and Saudi delegations, following a threatened rupture in the Gulf states’ oil relations – which have traditionally been seen as a cornerstone of the cartel’s market management.

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