The participation and address of Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019 clearly reflects Qatar’s leadership’s role and interest in addressing challenges confronting the Muslim world today.
It also reflects the vision of H H the Amir on the importance of close cooperation and coordination between the Islamic states for making joint strategies to steer Muslims out of present day crises in various parts of the world. The speech of H H the Amir at the opening session of the Summit itself is a great proof of Qatar’s leadership’s in-depth understanding of different global challenges from economy to ideological extremism. Hundreds of foreign representatives from around 20 Islamic countries participating in the summit to discuss Islamophobia, poverty, development and host of other issues.
Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani participated in the opening session of the Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019 on Thursday, which carries the theme “The Role of Development in Achieving National Sovereignty”.
H M King Abdullah Riayatuddin Al Mustafa Billah Shah of Malaysia, President of the Republic of Turkey, H E Recep Tayyip Erdogan; President of Iran, H E Dr Hassan Rouhani, and Prime Minister of Malaysia, H E Dr. Mahathir Mohammed participated in the summit.
Delivering speech at the opening session of the Summit, H H the Amir said: “This summit’s theme, ‘The Role of Development in Achieving National Sovereignty’, reflects the great challenges facing the world in general, and the Muslim world in particular, with regard to issues of security, peace, development, good governance and human rights. H H the Amir added that countries, where there is a Muslim majority, have proved by experience and practices that there is no contradiction between Islamic culture, development, good governance and human rights, and that, like other major civilizations, they can be incubators of enlightened and rational systems of governance; meanwhile other regimes justify underdevelopment, tyranny, and treading on human rights on the grounds of the Islamic culture of their peoples, although such justification in itself is incompatible with the spirit of Islamic civilization.
“As we meet here to discuss the co-relation between development and sovereignty, we stress that national development, especially the one that takes human development into consideration, is not possible without national sovereignty in countries that own their decision. On the other hand, it is almost impossible to maintain national sovereignty and independence of decision in conditions of economic backwardness and dependency. Therefore, development is an essential pillar of independence and national sovereignty.” President of Turkey H E Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed in his speech at the Summit that the Islamic world was not weak, and that there was no gap in capabilities between Muslims and other people around the world.
