In effect, Qatar, along with Mauritania, cut all remaining ties with Israel.

Qatar has plans to lease 40, 000 hectares of agricultural land along Kenya's coast to grow fruit and vegetables, in return for building a £ 2. 4 billion port close to the Indian Ocean tourist island of Lamu.

Lately a few airlines such as Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways have started to use the facility along with United and Swiss International Airlines.

For two decades it was also the world's longest borehole, in terms of measured depth along the well bore, until surpassed in 2008 by long Al Shaheen oil well in Qatar, and in 2011 by 12, 345 metres long Sakhalin-I Odoptu OP-11 Well ( offshore the Russian island Sakhalin ).

Then GCC was established along with Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

While the government initially considered joining the United Arab Emirates, Isa had his country withdraw ( along with Qatar ) over his dissatisfaction with the proposed constitution.

She then reached the final of the Tier I Qatar Total Open in Doha, beating Dinara Safina, Sybille Bammer, and Li Na along the way.

He left Rangers in 2004 after Euro 2004 along with twin brother Ronald ( his teammate at Ajax, Barcelona and Rangers ) to play the rest of his football career in Qatar with Al-Rayyan.

Israel also cites, as a major benefit of the conference and the peace process, the greatly increased number of countries which recognize and have some degree of diplomatic relations with it-nearly doubling-in particular citing the major powers of China and India and some even in the Arab world, like Oman, Qatar, Tunisia, Morocco and Mauritania, along with the decline of the Arab boycott and economic relations with some of the Arab countries.

Helfer also played a major role in Electronic Arts Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, as the high-level Nod general Kilian Qatar, along with her Battlestar Galactica co-star, actress Grace Park.

When India devalued the rupee in 1966, Qatar, along with the other states using the Gulf rupee, chose to introduce its own currency.

Amongst news channels, all four major U. S. cable news networks: CNN, HLN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel are available on most providers, along with channels from outside North America such as Al Jazeera English from Qatar, BBC World News from the United Kingdom, Deutsche Welle from Germany and RT from Russia.

* Al Jazeera Children's Channel is part of Qatar Foundation and is broadcast from Education City along with its pre-school sister Arabic channel, Baraem.

Originally the fort was built as a base for the Qatari military and police to protect Qatar ’ s north-west coast as part of a series of forts along Qatar ’ s coastline.

Azerbaijan currently has diplomatic relations with 160 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Republic of India, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

This plant, with 15 independent anaerobic digestors will be the world's largest composting facility once fully operational in early 2011 and forms part of the Qatar Domestic Solid Waste Management Center, the largest integrated waste management complex in the Middle East.

In many Muslim nations, such as Bahrain, Qatar, Algeria, Uzbekistan and the Maldives, homosexuality is punished with jail time, fines, or corporal punishment.

In the 1870s, Ottoman officials were reasserting their presence in the Persian Gulf, with a military intervention in 1871 — which was not effectively pursued — where family rivalries in Kuwait and Qatar were breeding chaos.

The supervisory board of Porsche finally agreed to a number of arrangements whereby the Qatar Investment Authority would inject a large amount of capital, and Porsche would be merged with Volkswagen Group.

Countries with a coastline on the Persian Gulf are ( clockwise, from the north ): Iran, Oman ( exclave of Musandam ), United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar on a peninsula off the Saudi coast, Bahrain on an island, Kuwait and Iraq in the northwest.

Large gas finds have also been made, with Qatar and Iran sharing a giant field across the territorial median line ( North Field in the Qatari sector ; South Pars Field in the Iranian sector ).

After Australian waters with some 80, 000 dugong inhabitants, the waters off Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, and Saudi Arabia have some 7, 500 dugongs remaining, making the Persian Gulf the second most important habitat for the species.

When the U. K. announced a policy in 1968 ( reaffirmed in March 1971 ) of ending the treaty relationships with the Persian Gulf sheikdoms, Qatar joined the other eight states then under British protection ( the seven trucial sheikdoms — the present United Arab Emirates -- and Bahrain ) in a plan to form a union of Arab emirates.

The Ottomans officially renounced sovereignty over Qatar in 1913, and in 1916 the new ruler, Jassim bin Mohammed's son, Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, signed a treaty with Britain bringing the peninsula into the trucial system.

The first move came in 1922 at a boundary conference in Uqair when the prospector Major Frank Holmes tried to include Qatar in an oil concession he was discussing with Ibn Saud.

The disruption of food supplies caused by the war prolonged a period of economic hardship in Qatar that had begun in the 1920s with the collapse of the pearl trade and had increased with the global depression of the early 1930s and the Bahraini embargo.

In 1968 Britain announced its intention of withdrawing from military commitments east of Suez, including those in force with Qatar, by 1971.

Still giving public support to the federation, Ahmad ibn Ali nonetheless promulgated a provisional constitution in April 1970, which declared Qatar an independent, Arab, Islamic state with the sharia ( Islamic law ) as its basic law.

During the trial, Qatar provided the court with 82 forged documents to substantiate their claims of sovereignty over the territories in question.

Qatar shares its land border with Saudi Arabia.

The political system of Qatar is a unicameral federal republic, with the Emir of Qatar as Supreme Chancellor and head of government.

This is a table of gross domestic product of Qatar at market prices estimated by the International Monetary Fund with figures in millions of Qatari Rials.

ADSL launched 2002 in Qatar provided by Qtel with 25000 ADSL users Ref

Public buses now service over 35 routes covering most locations of Doha with minimal fares making public transport in Qatar a thrifty solution to the problems of rush hours and parking difficulties.

Qatar achieved full independence on 3 September 1971 in an atmosphere of cooperation with the United Kingdom, the United States of America and friendship with neighbouring states.

Qatar established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and Communist China in 1988.

* Khaleeji ( currency ): Gulf Cooperation Council ( Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates )

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* Hanbali ( Saudi Arabia and Qatar ).

coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia ; linked to Bahrain, Qatar, UAE via the Fiber-Optic Gulf ( FOG ) cable ; satellite earth stations-3 Intelsat ( 1 Atlantic Ocean, 2 Indian Ocean ), 1 Inmarsat ( Atlantic Ocean ), and 2 Arabsat

registered in other countries: 29 ( Bahrain 3, Comoros 1, Liberia 1, Libya 1, Panama 2, Qatar 7, Saudi Arabia 6, UAE 8 ) ( 2005 )

Although they reign under constitutions, the monarchs of Brunei, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Swaziland appear to continue to exercise more political influence than any other single source of authority in their nations, either by constitutional mandate or by tradition.

This has resulted in countries, such as the GCC ( Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates ), choosing to invest more in the Arab world.

* 1981 – In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

A fortnight previously, Fayed had stated that " People approach us from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar.

Major proven resources ( in billion cubic meters ) are world 175, 400 ( 2006 ), Russia 47, 570 ( 2006 ), Iran 26, 370 ( 2006 ), Qatar 25, 790 ( 2007 ), Saudi Arabia 6, 568 ( 2006 ) and United Arab Emirates 5, 823 ( 2006 ).

* Arabian Peninsula ; Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Oman

In 2002, the Persian Gulf nations of Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, produced about 25 % of the world's oil, held nearly two-thirds of the world's crude oil reserves, and about 35 % of the world natural gas reserves.

Category: Qatar – Saudi Arabia border

Drilling of the first oil well began at Jebel Dukhan in October 1938 and, over a year later, the well struck oil in the Upper Jurassic limestone which, unlike the Bahraimi strike, was similar to Saudi Arabia ’ s Dammam field discovered three years before .< ref >" The Qatar Oil Discoveries " by Rasoul Sorkhabi < http :// www. geoexpro. com / history / qatardiscoveries ></ ref > Production was halted between 1942 and 1947 because of World War II and its aftermath.

A massive sandstorm sweeping over the Persian Gulf state of Qatar as it races southward toward southeastern Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on February 15, 2004

Qatar is a peninsula in the east of Arabia, bordering the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia, in a strategic location near major petroleum deposits.

Saudi Arabia's eastern boundary follows the Persian Gulf from Ras ' al Khafji to the peninsula of Qatar, whose border with Saudi Arabia was determined in 1965.

Throughout the 1980s, Somalia received economic aid from conservative, wealthy oil-exporting states of Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Support for the coalition brought economic dividends: Qatar canceled further repayment of all principal and interest on outstanding loans, and Saudi Arabia offered Somalia a US $ 70 million grant and promised to sell it oil at below prevailing international market prices.