Arabic News Weekly Edition for Qatar, 5/21/2001
Weekly Edition, Qatar - Week of May 21, 2001
- OIC emergency meeting to be held in Qatar on Saturday
More than 45 states announced their consent to take part in the emergency meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference next Saturday in Doha. Qatar-Regional, Politics, 5/24/2001 - Arab Gulf ministers boycott the Islamic Doha meeting
A Gulf diplomatic source said on Tuesday that several foreign ministers, members at the Gulf Cooperation Council will not take part, personally, in the emergency meeting of the foreign ministers of the member states in the "Organization of the Islamic Conference," as an expression of the " egret" of certain several states over not closing the Israeli trade office in Qatar. Regional-Qatar, Politics, 5/23/2001 - Qatari gas for Kuwait and Bahrain
The Qatari minister of oil Abdullah Bin Hamad al-Ateyah has stated that the negotiations Qatar is making with both Kuwait and Bahrain to provide them with Gas in the framework of Dolphin project, recorded a progress. He added that Doha will provide Kuwaiti with 30 million cubic meters of gas daily within the course of a possible agreement to this end. Qatar-Regional, Economics, 5/23/2001 - Death penalty for 19 Qatari convicted in failed coup Qatar, Politics, 5/22/2001
- Qatar donates 60 vehicles for Lebanese internal security
the Qatari official held a meeting end of last week with Lebanese interior minister Elias Al-Murr and informed him that Qatar would donate Lebanon 60 vehicles to enhance internal security nationwide. Qatar-Lebanon, Economics, 5/21/2001