Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani met separately with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Ahmed Isse Awad , and Deputy Prime Minister for Judicial Reform and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, Ekaterina Zaharieva. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs also met the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Albania, Ditmir Bushati. The meetings were held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Discussions dealt with relations between the State of Qatar and these countries, and ways of boosting them, as well as a number of regional and international issues of common concern.