Sheikh Tamim, US defence secretary reward ‘strategic family’

Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has praised the bilateral family between Qatar and the United States and identified the importance of coordination between the two worldwide locations, in particular in the discipline of combating terrorism.

Talking at a assembly with US Protection Secretary James Matiss on Monday, the Emir hailed the flexibility of family between the two worldwide locations.

« We are very overjoyed with this increasing relation, » Sheikh Tamim talked about, speaking at the Pentagon, the US department of defense headquarters in Virginia.

« We are working collectively in the face of terrorism and we’re having a study at ways to blueprint this relationship, » he continued, along side that Qatar hosts more than 10 thousand US troopers at an navy defective.

For his portion, Matiss talked about that Washington and Doha are discussing ways of making improvements to defense drive cooperation between the two worldwide locations.

« We are working collectively in the face of terrorism and we’re having a study at ways to blueprint this relationship, » he talked about, stating how strategic dialogue with Qatar reflects that.

« You undoubtedly know that we gaze you as a long-time defense drive accomplice and grand friend in the location, » he told Sheikh Tamim.

Mattis also pressured that Washington changed into as soon as trying for to cooperate with Qatar in say to reach peace in the Center East on so a lot of fronts, resembling combating terrorism, defeating the Islamic Advise of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, veritably identified as ISIS), and undermining Iran’s actions in the location.

« I dwell up for building on the momentum of this assembly, the save aside we are able to focus on about opportunities to pork up our cooperation in some unspecified time in the future, » Mattis talked about.

« I must stress right here Qatar’s space in pork up of the US dedication to regional security, which contains recordsdata alternate and counterterrorism efforts. »

Matiss praised Qatar’s hosting of the Al Udeid airbase, which he talked about affords key pork up for defense drive operations against ISIL, to boot to to backing NATO in Afghanistan.

« We are very grateful to Qatar’s funding in the Joint Air Operations Center and its offer to develop the fundamental products and companies at the navy defective, » he talked about.

The assembly changed into as soon as portion of Sheikh Tamim’s smartly-behaved consult with to the US, which began last Friday in Florida the save aside he met moderately about a defense drive and civilians officials there.

The White Home earlier talked about that Trump would meet Sheikh Tamim on Tuesday to focus on about ways to reach « joint security and financial priorities » between the US and Qatar.