First U.S.-Qatar Counterterrorism Dialogue
Media Note
Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, DC
November 8, 2017
U.S. and Qatari officials met in Washington, DC on November 8 for the
first U.S.-Qatari counterterrorism dialogue.
U.S. Coordinator for Counterterrorism Ambassador Nathan A. Sales led
the U.S delegation, which included officials from the Departments of State,
Homeland Security, Justice, and Treasury. The 11-member Qatari delegation was
led by Major General Abdul Aziz al-Ansari, Chairman of Qatar’s National Counter
Terrorism Committee, and included Dr. Mutlaq al-Qahtani, Special Envoy of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs for Counterterrorism and Conflict Mediation, and
officials from the Ministry of Interior, the State Security Bureau, and the
National Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism Finance Committee.
The delegations reviewed Qatar’s positive progress in implementing the
U.S.-Qatar counterterrorism Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in Doha on
July 11 by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Qatari Foreign Minister
Mohamed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani. The MOU laid out our mutual commitments for
increasing information sharing, disrupting terrorism financing flows, and
intensifying counterterrorism activities. During the dialogue, both sides
affirmed the progress made to date on implementing the MOU and committed to
expanding our counterterrorism partnership. Topics discussed included regional
terrorist threats, counterterrorism financing, regulation of the charitable
sector, information sharing, and aviation security.
Building on this progress, the United States and Qatar will deepen
their counterterrorism cooperation further, as exemplified by the recent visits
to Doha of Secretary of State Tillerson (October 22-23) and Treasury Secretary
Steven Mnuchin (October 29-30). Both visits served to underscore the broad,
robust ties between Qatar and the United States, especially in reaffirming the
two countries’ joint efforts to defeat terrorism.
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