Press Release– Prime Minister Sharmarke meets with Qatar’s Prime Minister in Doha as two nations ink co-operation agreements on Education and Aviation
PRESS STATEMENT
Office of the Prime minister
Mogadishu-Somalia
Doha, Thursday 19 March 2015 – H.E Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke met with his Qatar counterpart H.E Abdullah Bin Nasser Khalifa al Thani in Doha today. The meeting centered on co-operation and the longstanding relationship between
the two nations with the leaders agreeing on the need to forge closer ties
on stabilisation, trade and investment as well as governance.
“I’d like to thank the government and people of Qatar for their unending
support to Somalia. Our people remain grateful and I wish to share with you
the good news of Somalia’s progress and stability which Qatar has
contributed to,” said Prime Minister Sharmarke.
Prime Minister Sharmarke who’s on an official state visit to Qatar also
witnessed the signing of two key agreements between the two nations to
co-operate closely on education and aviation.
“These landmark agreements in the education and aviation sectors signed
today represent the aspirations of my administration to fast-track the
socio-economic development of our country after many years of instability
and will foster economic growth and employment opportunities,” said the
Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister is accompanied on the visit by Somalia’s Foreign
Minister Abdisalam Hadliye Omar, Planning and International Co-operation
Minister Abdirahman Aynte, Transport and Aviation Minister Ahmed Jama,
Health Minister Hawo Hassan Mohamed and Somalia’s Ambassador to Qatar Omar
Idris.
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