The Doha Forum is an annual international conference that takes place under the auspices of the Qatar Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani since 2003. Key themes of this year's conference are: investments in post-economic crisis era, international trade, migration, development, education, research and international safety.
Ali Abdusalam Al-Treiki, president of the UN General Assembly, together with the prime ministers of Canada and Hungary will also participate. Included in the program are prominent political figures, representatives of the business and education community of Qatar, of the United States, of Asian and Latin-American countries as well as of European countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany, France.
The list of participants also includes significant representations of major international governmental and nongovernmental organizations as well as of the international press, i.e. the Arabic channel Al Jazeera and the US newspaper Washington Post.
Rodi Kratsa will focus on the possibilities of cooperation between the EU and the Gulf countries on issues of development, security and peace in the Mediterranean region. The European Parliament has been consistently developing bilateral relations with the Gulf countries in the framework of inter-parliamentary committees and official visits.
Kratsa will also meet with the Prime Minister of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al-Thani as well as with other ministers not only of Qatar but also of other Gulf countries in order to promote cooperation aimed at the completion of the free trade agreement between the EU and the Gulf Cooperation Council, "whose delay constitutes an obstacle to the closer economic and political cooperation between the two sides," added Kratsa.
