Davos-Qena
HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, said during a session entitled "Peace and Reconciliation in a Multipolar World" at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that the Gulf conflict hampers the ability of the Gulf Cooperation Council to contribute to peace process, and to be a stabilizing force as everyone expected. He said that the region is currently in a very complex situation, pointing to the success of the State of Qatar in achieving peace in Darfur and the Lebanese consensus and mediation in Afghanistan.
His Excellency assured that Qatar has a distinguished position, due to its size and ability of acting and addressing the conflict parties. He appointed "We have tried to use these capabilities to achieve public interest, peace and reconciliation in these countries, but if the concerned countries themselves do not participate in peace operations in good faith, you cannot impose peace". He added: "We are only mediators, but the actors remain the parties to the conflict itself." "If each country works individually, it cannot influence," said Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, referring to the Gulf crisis. "Although the GCC itself as a regional organization has proven to be a successful model for joint action in the Arab region, unfortunately, it seems to have failed to solve its own problems. "
"The situation has become very complex, so we needed to act in good faith from the start," he said.
In response to a question on the model of democratic change, His stressed that the State of Qatar did not support change by imposing democracy or other. "We are strengthening what the people in the region want, and Qatar itself is not a democratic country, but it has a democracy that is about involving the people in power. " HE pointed out that the people participated in the vote on the Qatari constitution and in the election of the municipal council, which women have participated in since the first elections. We have freedom of the press, in addition to other tools of democracy practiced daily in Qatar, and what Qatar did in the region is that it stood against the leaders who Oppress their people. That is what Qatar did during the Arab spring revolutions.
On the United States mediation in the Gulf crisis, His Excellency said that the United States can play the role of mediation in the region. The United States is the largest and largest power in the world. There are superpowers, and those superpowers need to use their influence to impose peace and reconciliation. In reference to the Gulf conflict and the position if his country, HR said "Qatar has taken double steps forward since the beginning of the crisis, while other countries are still unwilling to do so. Qatar is still in its position, in spite of the hostility that it faced. It is taking big efforts to isolate this crisis from the people, because we have families linked to each other, they are allowed to come to Doha without complicated procedures. "