Officials and experts confirmed that the speech of His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, at the opening of the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries in Doha, was comprehensive and touched on the most important challenges facing these countries and how to confront them. Officials and experts praised Al-Sharq for Doha’s hosting of the Fifth United Nations Conference. They said that the State of Qatar has always been committed to its principles in supporting the least developed countries, pointing to His Highness’s announcement of Qatar’s support for the least developed countries with $60 million to implement the Doha Program for the least developed countries, and emphasizing the importance of international solidarity to support these countries.
The regional official for the file of the least developed countries in the Arab region, Younis Abu Ayoub, confirmed that His Highness the Emir’s speech at the opening of the Fifth Conference of the Least Developed Countries in Doha included three important points, which are the global food crisis as well as international conflicts. This issue is very important, especially in the Arab region, because most countries are less developed. Experiencing disputes and conflicts. Secondly, His Highness spoke about the need not to politicize humanitarian assistance to the victims of earthquakes and natural disasters, with reference to Syria and Turkey. As for the third point, which is no less important, which is that these events and crises require concerted efforts to eradicate poverty, which is a clear indication of reviving multilateralism in international relations and working together to find common solutions to common problems and not to unilateral decision-making. Finally, it was announced that Qatar would support the least developed countries with 60 million dollars to implement the Doha Program for the least developed countries, and these are all signs that strengthen the support and assistance of these countries in order to achieve the goals of sustainable development and get out of their successive raging crises, especially in the Arab region.
In turn, Dr. Ragab Al-Ismail, Director of the Center for Community Service and Continuing Education at Qatar University, said that His Highness the Emir’s speech at the opening of the Least Developed Countries Conference included the challenges facing the countries of the world and the exceptional circumstances the world is going through and how they can be faced, as the speech began with an analysis of many problems facing the world. The most prominent of which are food security and the phenomenon of climate change, and the resulting increase in poverty, lack of food and health care, as well as education, as well as the energy crisis, which resulted directly from the Ukrainian-Russian war and the debt crisis. His Highness the Amir also gave a description of many of these problems as a result of economic policies pursued by some countries. Major industrial and resulted in the failure to achieve justice among the peoples of the world.
He noted the importance of His Highness the Amir’s reference to the non-politicization of humanitarian aid in the context of his talk about the current humanitarian crisis due to the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria, and the need to work with all parties to overcome this crisis. He stressed that the speech was excellent, as His Highness referred to the most important global challenges, expressing his hope that the results of the conference would turn into practical steps.
