As part of its foreign policy, the State of Qatar has worked with great efforts to establish friendly relations with different nations across the world and promoting peace and stability at regional and international levels with a view to achieve convergence of views and find sustainable solutions for conflicts and differences.
Over less than ten years of time (2008-2016) Qatar mediated nearly 10 key regional and international issues. Qatar hosts negotiations between conflicting parties and contributes as a facilitator of dialogue between factions, entities and countries including for long-lasting conflicts in Asia and Africa.
Everyone remembers the mediation efforts of the State of Qatar that played a key role in settling one of the most complicated conflicts of Darfur and reaching Doha Peace Agreement, along its successful mediation in releasing of Djiboutian prisoners of war in Eretria, releasing of hostages in Syria, ending of the presidential vacuum in Lebanon.
Qatar also successfully mediated between Sudan and Eritrea and rival Tebu and Taureg tribes in Libya resulting in the signing of a peace and reconciliation agreement in Doha. On top of these comes the decades-old war in Afghanistan where Qatar brought the US and the Taliban to table of negotiations and US-Taliban peace pact was signed in February 2020 in Doha.
The State of Qatar also attaches great importance to the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian-Palestinian reconciliation where Qatar continues to work towards reconciliation among the Palestinians.
No doubt that Qatari leadership with patience, wisdom and perseverance has succeeded in bringing reconciliations to maintain international peace and security such as the recent successful mediation between Somalia and Kenya.
As an outcome of the Qatari mediation and political will of the leaders of the two states, the government of Kenya and Somalia agreed to restoring diplomatic ties and keep friendly relations on the basis of mutual respect for sovereignty and mutual benefit and on principles of peaceful co-existence.
The leaders of the two countries thanked Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, for the role played by the State of Qatar in the reconciliation.
For the State of Qatar, restoring peace and stability is not just the absence of violence or silencing of the guns, but it is long process which requires consolidation of peace through reconciliation and justice, and the promotion of human development especially in the areas of education and public health, as well as creation of jobs and economic recovery. The process also requires political and economic integration of youth, the defense of human rights and the promotion of social cohesion by rejecting injustice and exclusion.
