The opening ceremony of the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Doha was held on March 20 during the state visit of the President of Turkmenistan to Qatar.

The ceremony was attended by members of the government of Turkmenistan, heads and representatives of foreign diplomatic missions accredited in Qatar, as well as the Foreign Ministry of Qatar.

The flag of Turkmenistan was raised and the national anthem was played at the opening ceremony.

It was emphasized that the event symbolizes the important role that Turkmenistan assigns in foreign policy to the development of relations with Qatar. It was noted that the work of the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Doha will correspond to a high level of interstate dialogue, embody their trust and openness, actively promote the further strengthening of a productive partnership in all areas.

The significance of the event, which coincided with the high-level talks between President Serdar Berdimuhamedov and Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, were noted.

The high-level meeting was another confirmation of the mutual interest of the two countries in the development of multifaceted cooperation, an expression of the goodwill of the peoples of the two countries to strengthen the ties of friendship.

The decree on opening a diplomatic office of Turkmenistan in Qatar was signed by the President of Turkmenistan in December 2022.

Source : Akipress

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The “Qatargate” scandal is only in its infancy. But it could go far beyond the case of the small Gulf emirate. L-POST.be was able to reveal, exclusively, that Pier-Antonio Panzeri, the former MEP at the center of the corrupt group was also a diligent lawyer for a former Kazakh oligarch, Muktar Ablyazov, who has just been rejected his status as an asylum seeker in France, the National Court for the Right of Asylum (CNDA) having established that he was not a real political refugee, but that he was not seeking this status to protect himself from lawsuits for a diversion of several billion dollar.

For the European Parliament, this is a real earthquake. On one Friday afternoon, after the wave of searches and the arrests made to uncover a corrupt network linked to Qatar, the police intercepted a man in a hurry at the exit of the Sofitel hotel from Place Jourdan, a stone’s throw from the building of the European Assembly. 

In his suitcases, the investigators discovered around 600,000 euros. And the man was not just anyone: he is the father of a vice-president of the European Parliament, the Greek socialist Eva Kaili, whose companion had been arrested a few hours earlier. The investigating judge Michel Claise decided, in the process, to search the Brussels home of Ms. Kaili. Because of the seizure made in the luggage of his father, the operation could be carried out in flagrante delicto, the immunity of the parliamentarian no longer comes into play. 

In the apartment occupied by Ms. Kaili, 150,000 euros were seized. All in small denominations. These amounts were in addition to the approximately 600,000 euros seized on the same morning at the former parliamentarian (Italian socialist) Pier-Antonio Panzeri. In all therefore, the amount seized was at least 1,350,000 euros. 

“In general, seizures of this order, we only make in cases of organized crime, and, most often, drug trafficking”, said the specialized investigator in his report. “These are not only honest sums citizens keep under their mattress. ”

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