True. Welcome to conflicts our thank you for inviting me last march qatar put 28 people and ditties on the terrorism list which included several target nationals some of these people had already been on the arab list before why did your government delay putting them in the well this is not entirely accurate the idea of having designated this war was new altogether. And as a matter of fact the other piece who were on the list 4 of them to be very precise and specific were already under watch because they were under the Security Council designated list and all of the measures had been applied on them actually here is prior to designate with them but when you. Arab states put them on the list you said the charges were baseless no thats not accurate lets put things into context june 5th 2017 for working in countries for our countries decided to blockade cars now we understand that we are less than to them specifically about theres 100. 00 people in and get as so to put things into context again when they did that when they did the country when they expelled our people from their own countries. Prevented them from access to mecca and then i understand i dont want to go through the whole history of them so when they did what they did that is they wanted to have an excuse so they have put forward many accusations and on terrorism etc we said that those accusations were baseless and this was our position when april last year washingtons Near East Institute gave evidence to house subcommittee on terrorism said doha had been less than forthcoming on the issue of prosecuting terrorism finances in qatar reports over the issue is youre courting a think tank in the us but youre not courting the state department which said that the memorandum of understanding signed between utter and the u. S. Puts it ahead of its neighbors including saudi and United Arab Emirates well for a long period of time the state department has had quite a few reservations but lets go through the history in 2009 the classified cable from the Us State Department to its missions in the gulf pointed to your disinterest in the subject qatar has adopted a largely passive approach to cooperating with the us against terrorist financing it said in february 2007 to 2 years earlier former us treasury official dont you glazer so katter have not yet made the kind of fundamental decisions on combating terrorist financing these are hardly glowing endorsement as one of your position was the issue the only issue of the quest. Is that a chance light on some facts and ignores completely other facts including the memorandum of understanding with the u. S. Including the fact that the 1st legislation we had against terrorism was in the year 2000 and you can always sign pieces of paper cutter but if you dont do anything about them we do pay meaningless we know what you think these comments are so well theyre also not that common you havent got the political will as latest october 27th in the us secretary treasury secretary steven minutiae so terrorists were continuing to use both the charity and Money Service sectors in qatar for illicit finance and. Crackdown on manner absolutely and mr minutiae a few months ago was of other met with his highness and actually mean remarks that are to the contrary of what you just mentioned in addition to that january 2000 and. 19 we had the 2nd Strategic Dialogue between though had and the us and in that very dialogue the joint communique that came out of it actually commanded coupler for its actions against terror as a matter of. Our results little isnt a result lets lets lets actually lets actually look at some of your results because you have treated your terrorist suspects with extraordinary leniency or carelessness and i wonder why lets take some examples of bucca was released from jail after he promised not to conduct terrorist activity and that this was a man who had plotted military attacks against the u. S. Military bases in our power for punishment promised to be a good boy and well let you out of jail term im afraid that youre not even giving me the chance i mean youre taking so long to state you know spell of the accusations but i need a chance to tell you from cells exactly and im dealing with facts so youre dealing with comments im doing no no no no what i said are facts the facts that. The state Department Said that qatar is ahead there with neighbors this is a fact the fact that mr minutiae was in the hand commanded qatar only a few months ago this is a fact the fact that the name that you just mentioned and the 4 the only 4 names that we have on there is it make a list as up ladies they had actions taken against them years ago not only to the those are the facts that you know you should put in your let me let me give you a let me give you a few more facts and let me give you a few more phone it in addition to this and that i might want to go to a point that you mentioned earlier the problem is quoting courting countries that accused coppered of terrorism as if they were in a position to accuse other of terrorism whereas these 3 countries egypt and saudi United Arab Emirates had their own citizens participating in september 11th lets look at ability of akureyri arrested in 2016 supposedly served his sentence under house arrest very nice and comfortable for coordinating the funding between qatari finances and al qaeda serious charge just a few months at home this is a joke isnt no its not because there is something called the rule of law how many designate people are on the u. S. List you have u. S. Citizens for example this is called group of law the people that you mentioned are on watch lists there is a huge difference between being on a watch list this means you are a suspect and there are no charges that were proven against you is how effective you are. Merely no no the question is how it affects the other interactive and they are really in compliance absolutely in compliance with the u. N. Security council measures can you tell me where those measures are affective was it for. The u. S. Government shut down his terrorist fund raising 2014 by 2017 the treasury noted that he was still actively involved in financing al qaeda a year later ill tell you what thats an effective measure thats an offensive measure at. Its very effective i mean the found looks like no it is so do you know what the u. N. Security council measures are against people who are designated its not up to me to know notice and i dont really until over the last 5 years and dealing with fact knowing those are the facts and not only that there are 3 measures i mean youll can look them up online 3 measures that need to be taken one is to prevent those individuals and individuals from access to weapons to is to seize all of the Financial Transactions and free is a ban on travel all of these 3 international measures have been exercised on these people now if you want to why thats why they Like Networks were running if you want to and i was like you want us to go beyond International Law that maybe should state it clearly look. The other thing that you do is you play games with the west. Word games in fact supporting the Palestinian Group hamas but insisting on calling them a Resistance Organization and denying the terrorists your Counter Terrorism envoy mood luck and qatar only said in washington in april last year hamas is not a terrorist organization and start sending suicide bombers to blow up buses killing civilians women and children sending rockets discriminate indiscriminately over civilian areas has not terrorism there isnt a single arab country that designates hemis as a terrorist organization where you know theyre not going or going not unique in that position we are not unique in that position as a matter of fact there are many are not aware of unique or not thats of the issue many sending suicide bombers to blow up buses with women and children on men is that not terrorism any we dont approve of any of those i reason we dont approve of any of those violations however many European Countries dont designate that if its not terrorism what would you call it to them allowing up civilians on buses what. But you called and. Ill cut him and call him its me to call no its on its violence thats not acceptable against this is a terrorism you want to call it terrorism fair enough but the problem is you are not dealing fairly with a different parties here were talking in the context of occupation that is Israeli Occupation that is killing people on daily basis do you that the scribe this as terrorism or not how do you hope to play any leaning for role in the war on terror if you wont accept the common definition of what terrorism no actually is no no we do accept that we do accept that however tim the thing is when you were describing the actions of hamas you gave yourself the liberty of the scribing this as terrorism but when i asked you about what the Israeli Occupation is doing i can strengthen and women you shine away from describing this as Straight Talk so this really is about what that is and thats right youngsters i am talk had i am talking to you about your position and arms and im serving the these people around us enough but the agree that there needs im not here to agree or disagree im trying to answer do they ask your question i totally understand but once again should there be a unified definition of terrorism that is acceptable internationally then maybe it should not be based on double it and its not that difficult cambridge dictionary defines it as violent action for political purposes thats it thats it for now then should be applicable on both parties were talking about hummus here and your view of this or in fact is your Anti Terrorist credentials have been further put in your governments readiness to allow hate speech from your mosques and on state broker us in april last year the Anti Defamation League which monitors hate speech so your government continue to use its platforms to promote strident anti semitic preachers why start true and give me some examples. Ill tell you one thing ill tell you one thing that always needs to be a balance between freedom of expression and what people think and then what the government should do we have many platforms on coupler that have many different voices right represented so to give you an example your government provides your preachers with guidance standing for the friday so mine away by the way to refuse primetime and reserves the right to take judicial action against clerics who break the rules of this of the other thats not true ill tell you what ill tell you one thing ill tell you one thing i mean once again we have platforms and go have that represent all voices including voices that are considered by many muslim conservatives as voices that should not be represented we represent all voices and coupled with no exclusion of friday sermon december 27th teen mohammed reiki he told muslims that jews have enmity and hatred towards you in their blood and their veins its scribed the jewish people as your deceitful lying treacherous fornicating in chances are an enemy who has despoiled corrupted ruined and killed and will not stop and he called on all muslims to cleanse from the filth of the jews you put that out you put that out on your broker us no even promoted it this is this is not acceptable to describe except to know we dont know how on except of all is it that your government accepted it the government did not accept that when the government issued a statement accepting that they promote it is known they did not do it no they did it of course im telling you are open and has i asked to ireland i am speech why do you continue i am with. Listen i am telling you i am a representative of the government and im telling you that any description of any group is and such terms is absolutely not acceptable its discrimination and we dont approve of it yet yet in other venues you have the slammer for both discourse happening in europe and the well its already here with youre not youre not responsible for europe youre responsible for verizon and outta here but listen you cannot dictate what im going to say now but it is those voices islam for because war says are represented n. Many countries yet we dont hear that its because of the freedom of expression in other countries im not saying once again im reiterating my position that those terms are not acceptable yet we should receive fair treatment fair treatment and by the way in many other countries including israel there are many who are using the same terms exactly against muslims back in the early 2000 scatter made many promises to democratize im wondering why the process has stalled because the 2003 constitution stipulated that 30 out of 45 members of the m is Advisory Council would be filled through elections every 4 years 16 years on from that constitution no elections weve been repeatedly perspire why why the answer is very straightforward unfortunately some of our neighbors were not happy with that they thought that you should you care what your neighbors thing well no actually we do it and we do and now we realize after 2 years of the walking that we realize that maybe we should have our own path independent path away from them and thats why united cannot answer to your constitution and this is exactly its a commitment an absolute 16 years on you has your little feeling about what youre not aware of is that after the blockade actually its been an hour ste that the Shura Council will be elected and the legislations are being worked on. Youve also made a lot of promises on workers rights human Rights Groups acknowledge that you have finally and after much delayed taken measures to improve the pooling conditions that Migrant Workers in qatar had to put up with why did you take so long. The question of the guest workers is definitely a complex question there is no question about our commitment when it comes to that rights there has been over the years plenty of question about you can fair enough i mean those were basically based on some media campaigns excited but the best on the truth of your mind and your lousy conditions and all these might be a workers i dont know we acknowledge that and we acknowledge that as a matter of fact the most recent Amnesty International report we have welcomed that Human Rights Watch are welcome to doha on a regular basis and we receive their criticism very well yet we may still say youre dragging your feet yes but they said that they we made great progress ilo in november 2017 closed the issue the case against us and we have threatened you if full investigation and if you didnt clean up your act you know ill tell you what they have to threaten you with the know they know nothing else and you they did so fact and know the thing is that but this is the difference we deal with constructive criticism very positively thats why we receive any constructive criticism very well so let me just continue that part after the closing the complaint against what are the ilo november 2017 we signed a 3 Year Agreement with them and the ilo issued a statement saying that should all the measures and that agreement be moved implemented but that will be at leading example in the region this is what we aspire to and there is no question about our commitment to the guesswork because they are helping us in developing our country. Your treatment of foreigners and has attracted the attention of the Un Convention against torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment in june last year they cited a catalogue of appalling conditions inside the house Deportation Center these include inadequate sanitation insufficient ventilation shortage of bedding and food you are the richest country on earth the shortage of food and bedding no proper lavatories no proper ventilation no proper food you feel no shame at any of this every anyone who hears about this should feel that there is no question are you ashamed of this ill tell you one thing to the point is grosser my question as a simple yes or no right here shows is that this is a violent wood working on it there is nothing someone does it take to work on it youre the richest country on earth in the long does this take an act nearer to provide proper lavatories for human beings it takes a long time it takes for a reason really really why do you want an answer yes fair enough so the answer is the following the problem the serious problem were facing is the following there are thousands of medium and Small Businesses that are very difficult to control so im to go to deport this and the euros to the new laws and learn from the laws and regulations have developed massively so minimum wages have been applied exit permit has been abolished whats known as for everybody you promise to abolish it for everybody by the end of this year as well as hasnt been clearly a polished yet ill tell you there is a difference between having the law and Law Enforcement to give you an example there are laws that condemn like that for forbid the crimes everywhere theres a smi in that crime stops of course no there are many violations yes learn from harlem and you dont have people who object you dont recall you have to can anyone not know your emir in 24 then so. We are going to do this then i would accept a no but then you are such an exceptional then you havent done the homework properly the National HumanRights Committee and other issues a report on nearly basis about the conditions of the Migrant Workers why theres no proper ventilation in that problem no thats why we know proper food and no proper love that is in your you know their television stance while its an appalling state of absolute thats why what im proving why did Amnesty InternationalHuman Rights Watch that we said that we have made great progress never do anything unless you push a notion of the no we do and you will rag your feet you know the idea every bit in the you know arrest and every roof that is completely inaccurate to the minimum we dont want minimal necessary no we dont do the minimum we are the best when it comes to our region by the way really of course we are can you give me examples from the neighboring countries and the Un Convention against torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment says that what is striking is the number of times the Committee Says you have failed to provide the u. N. Route the crusted information particularly about your Justice System or are you so reluctant to live up to the suspect of your obligations ill get to that but i just need to address one point that you mentioned about that we dont do actions towards the conditions of Migrant Workers are not unless were pushed to in 2008 we have launched our vision 2030 and right and that vision one of the 4 pillars about as was about Human Development and improving the conditions for the Migrant Workers was there and others and certainly you know the answer the u. N. Is still saying no the problem for a very violent illusion no proper lavatories no proper burial for thats taken a long time absolutely seconal it down some forgive or has even a long time the entire world there are violations in and using richest and you are the richest country that is well done have you not complied with the uns requests for in from. Ill tell you why i know but unfortunately people watching on the richest country i need to address this there are violations against Migrant Workers in every country in the world im not talking about every country not yours not with this means that we are we can treasure what about you know what definitely what about venus what about mars whats happening on our moon now im talking about no happens after that what have you dont seem to want to drill i said that no we want to address it i said that we have improved i said that we have welcomed the emptiness Amnesty International report i mean once again where she also said you are not living up to the lead to your committee exactly and we have the welcome that and we said that we are working on this there is a huge difference between having violations that are systematic and violations that happen because of the complexity of the situation you feel no shame to you for putting people in these conditions to you were not putting people under these conditions. I know who we are in the deportations and the ones you again no one said this is completely not acceptable this is what i said what i said was very clear there isnt something that a systematic and as soon as we discover a violation we act upon that there is no question about this look at the blockade after 2 years blockade from the arab quartet your foreign minister recently returned in the last few days summits in saudi arabia does this mean the the promise of yes yes no no doesnt this only shows our commitment to out of cooperation basically and it was the result of mediation from the side of the emir of kuwait we honored that and our Prime Minister attended we had didnt like the turn of the statements and not dealing with iran before they were too harsh on iran thats not accurate we had reservations on the statements and im about to explain why because iraq by the way had reservations and other countries also had reservations the reason is the following i mean were meeting at the just as the g. C. C. And here the Government Operations busy around the Gulf Cooperation Council not much cooperation is of much cooperation this is a problem so right in that statement they say the opposite they say that the cooperation is great and they decided to ignore the fact that there is a blockade they decided to ignore the fact that there are thousands of families that are currently separated because of that looking and then at the arab level they refused to address libya despite whats happening and the horrors that are happening because of unfortunately incitement by the same blockading countries for the general have tried to displace thousands of people in libya they refuse to address syria thats why of course we objected to those statements and were not alone are you afraid that with the u. S. Reinforcing its striper naval stroke in the region with the focus of saudi arabia and you worry that there will be war with iran for the moment well what we heard from the American Administration is that they want to have dialogue but not for escalation so i dont think that any party once escalation and this point and you are satisfied that it isnt going to escalate out of control any point then of course the world watching instability and instability caused by the blockade against you instability caused by america putting force winds of its forces in the area a war are and this region i mean means the problem for the entire world is you dont think. Were hoping that it is but then i mean we have to be very very cautious as were watching we need to have all parties to be talking to each other there are countries that are mediating for us the Prime Minister of japan was just in iran so were hoping that some of those efforts will eventually lead into you know because some if not. If not. 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