External political affairs of Qatar

This file concerns Qatar's foreign relations and regional affairs. It contains correspondence and press cuttings on:

• Visits and planned visits to Qatar by King Hussein Bin Talal of Jordan; the US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defence Major General Kenneth Burns to Doha, coinciding with visits by representatives from McDonnell Douglas and other armaments manufacturers; the Swedish Labour Minister Anna-Grete Leijon; King Juan Carlos of Spain; and a Japanese Government Minister
• A draft instrument of accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, with a background paper
• The appointment of Ahmad Ghanem Al Romaihi as Qatar representative to the European Commission
• The candidacy of Abdul Aziz Bin Turki for a post on the Executive Council of UNESCO
• The appointments of ambassadors to Qatar, including Ali Ahmad Al Khadn as the Ambassador from the Yemen Arab Republic; and Joseph Ghougassian as the US Ambassador
• Visits by the Amir of Qatar Sheikh Khalifa Bin Hamad Al Thani to Turkey and Europe, a planned visit to West Germany and difficulties arising in planning visits on account of the Amir's unpredictability
• The triangular relations between Qatar, Iran and Turkey and a proposed pipeline project
• Qatar’s view of Iran’s leadership and the threat of Shia fundamentalism
• Rumours of Qatari payments to Iraq and Qatar's denials of this
• A proposed Foreign Minister-level meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) associated with Egyptian and Palestine-Jordan peace proposals
• Criticism in the Gulf Times of the US and the UK for their Israel-Palestine policies
• The Amir’s visit to France and meeting with President François Mitterrand, including cuttings from French newspapers
• A meeting of the Qatar-French Joint Committee
• Qatar’s assessment of the Arab League summit held in Casablanca
• A visit by Yasser Arafat to Jordan
• Qatar’s relations with the Soviet Union and other communist countries
• Qatar’s relations with Pakistan, Pakistani influence in Qatar’s armed forces, and a visit by Pakistan’s President Dhia al Haqq [Mohammad Zia ul Haq]
• The signing of an India-Qatar labour agreement
• Britain’s unwillingness to provide details of a Saudi Arabia-UAE border agreement reached in 1974 on account of its confidentiality to the two governments concerned
• Renewed Saudi efforts to move the border-line south of Umm Al Zamul
• A GCC-sponsored project to create a single frontier post on the UAE-Saudi-Qatar road, abolishing the posts at Sila and Sawda Nathil
• US-Qatar defence relations and proposed joint manoeuvres with the Qatar Sea Arm
• Joint UK-Qatar military exercises
• The departure of Peter Hadfield from his posting with Shell Qatar
• Visa requirements for UK nationals
• The interest of Sheikh Abdulla Bin Khalifa Al Thani in the purchase of an island in the Caribbean.