Qatar has been playing a pivotal role in mediating regional and international issues. Qatar’s crucial role in promoting peace always won praise from different countries and organisations across the world and its efforts and record in this regard gave it an identity of a peacemaking country in the world.
Through its tremendous efforts and determination, Qatar brought together local and international conflicting parties on the table for dialogue to make peace. Having acceptance from all conflicting parties, Qatar did not hesitate to engage in the most complex regional issues during the past two decades and dealt with extremely perplexed issues such as the war in Afghanistan, the war in Darfur in Sudan, civil war in Libya, border conflict between Eritrea and Djibouti and other war zones where Qatar’s efforts established peace.
The recent agreement between the US and the Taliban, the ongoing intra-Afghan dialogue in Doha, and the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD) which was a culmination of over 20 months of negotiations, dialogue and consultations with the major parties to the Darfur conflict, are examples of Qatar’s successful diplomacy for establishing peace.
Qatar’s efforts for establishing peace and stability in these countries never ended with mediation and signing of peace agreements rather Qatar made follow up at the regional and international levels and implemented economic projects that encouraged the people of those areas to adopt the peace process.
The State of Qatar provided continuous support and followed up consistently the establishment of a comprehensive peace in Sudan, particularly in Darfur and Eastern Sudan, and through the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur, Qatar established basis for the peace process in other parts of Sudan.
The high-level Qatari participation yesterday in the final signing ceremony of the peace agreement between the transitional government of the Republic of Sudan and the Sudanese armed movements, in Juba, capital of South Sudan, comes in this context.
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, H E Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi, who headed the Qatari delegation, described the signing as a unique historical moment, where everyone has devoted themselves to peace, and rejected war, and responded to the voice of reason and conscience.
The moment according to him “relates to the hopes of many who have been displaced by war and made them refugees and displaced persons, to return to the embrace of the nation that awaits peace, development, reconstruction and prosperity”.
