DOHA: The Cabinet which met here yesterday under the chairmanship of Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani approved a draft law on protecting Arabic language and decided to submit it to the Advisory Council. The draft law included several steps such as all governmental and non-governmental entities should commit to protect and support the Arabic in all activities and events they organise.
The draft law also included commitment of ministries, government bodies, public entities and institutions, associations and private institutions, private institutions of public interest and entities whose budget is financed by the state to use Arabic in their meetings and discussions and in all decisions, regulations, instructions, documents, contracts, correspondence, labels, programmes, publications, visual, audiovisual and written announcements and other transactions they issue.
The entities subject to the provisions of this law shall comply their positions within six months from the date of its implementation. The Cabinet may extend this period for one or more similar periods.
The Prime Minister chaired the Cabinet’s regular meeting held at the Emiri Diwan. Following the meeting, Minister of Justice and Acting Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, H E Dr Hassan bin Lahdan Al Hassan Al Mohannadi stated the decisions.
The Cabinet welcomed the results of the official visit of Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to the US. The Cabinet affirmed that H H the Emir’s talks with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday as well as the meetings with a number of senior US officials, have cemented the growing bilateral relations between both countries. The meetings also opened up new horizons and advanced the established strategic cooperation between both countries, especially in the field of their joint efforts to combat terrorism.
The Cabinet expressed confidence that in light of the results of this important visit and in light of the continuous strategic dialogue between both countries, the Qatari-US relations will soon witness further positive developments in various fields, that benefits the peoples, peace, stability and security, both regionally and internationally.
With regard to the tragic situation in Syria, the Cabinet strongly condemned the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime last Saturday in Douma in Eastern Ghouta, which led to the death of tens of innocent victims.
The Cabinet expressed deep regret at the inability of the UN Security Council to provide protection to the Syrians from the brutal regime attacks that they have been subjected to for more than seven years.
The Cabinet called on the international community and the UN Security Council in particular to shoulder its moral and legal responsibility and take the required measures to protect the Syrian people, and to hold the perpetrators of the crime accountable and take them to international criminal justice.
The Cabinet approved the draft decision of the Council of Ministers to form a consultative statistics committee and organising its work. The committee is competent to provide advice on all statistical processes; propose priorities to meet users’ needs for statistical data, propose the necessary annual statistical plans and programmes, and provide support to improve statistical work.
It also approved the draft decision of the Minister of Interior to form a permanent committee on births and deaths.
The Council of Ministers also approved participation in EPEX India 2018 scheduled to be held in New Delhi from June 28 to 30, 2018. The Cabinet gave approval for accession to the Marrakesh treaty to facilitate access to published works for persons who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled.
