The State of Qatar participated in the third joint meeting of the elected offices of the ninth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Global Health Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the second session of the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, in addition to the third meeting of the General Committee elected from the Meeting of the Parties, all of which were held in Geneva . The State of Qatar was represented in the meetings by Dr. Kholoud Al-Mutawa, Head of the Eastern Mediterranean Region Office for the Protocol for Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, and Head of the Non-Communicable Diseases Department at the Ministry of Public Health. It is noteworthy that the State of Qatar ratified the Protocol on Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products through the issuance of Emiri Decree No. 52 of 2018. The protocol aims to eliminate all forms of illegal trade in tobacco products that are growing and often growing across borders through a package of measures and policies taken by the State of Qatar and the rest of the world. Member states to solve this global problem. The protocol provides a comprehensive set of tools to address illegal trade in tobacco products and seeks to increase cooperation between government agencies in the country, with the close participation of the Ministry of Public Health, to discuss the implemented national policies and legislation in the country that undermine the policies of illegal trade in it. Illicit trade in tobacco products also poses a serious threat to public health because it increases the ease of access to cheap tobacco products, which strengthens the tobacco epidemic and destroys tobacco control policies in countries, causing significant material losses in government revenues and contributes to the financing of international criminal activities in some other countries. In the world.
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