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GCO highlights Qatar’s past mediation efforts

13 Sep 2020, 09:51

Doha: The Government Communications Office (GCO) has said that since 2008 Qatar has mediated in approximately 10 key regional and international issues.

“Qatar has made diplomatic efforts at regional & international levels to mediate between factions, entities and countries. Hosting Afghanistan peace negotiations demonstrates Qatar’s commitment to its role as a facilitator to find sustainable solutions to conflicts & differences,” the GCO tweeted yesterday sharing a motion graphic showing Qatar’s success in mediation in different parts of the world in last many years.

The graphic reveals that since 2008, Qatar has mediated in approximately 10 key regional and international issues. Sharing details of Qatar’s successful past mediation efforts, the GCO said that in 2008, Qatar brokered the Doha agreements between rival Lebanese factions which ended an 18-month long political crisis. In 2009, Qatar mediated between Sudan and Chad who signed the Doha Accord.

Then from 2008-2013, Qatar took a leadership role in peace efforts in Sudan hosting peace talks in Doha. According to the GCO, in 2010 Qatar mediated a ceasefire agreement over a border dispute between Djibouti and Eritrea ending an armed conflict between the two parties.

In 2011, Qatar mediated between Sudan and Eritrea and in 2012 Qatar mediated the 2012 Doha Agreement between Fatah and Hamas. Then in 2015 Qatar successfully mediated between the rival Tebu and Taureg tribes in Libya resulting in the signing of a peace and reconciliation agreement in Doha.

In 2020, Qatar mediated the signing of an agreement between the US and the Taliban to bring peace in Afghanistan and now again in 2020 Qatar is facilitating direct negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban during Afghanistan Peace Negotiations.

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