Cabinet Holds Weekly Meeting

Doha, May 04 (QNA) - HE the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud chaired on Wednesday the Cabinet's regular weekly meeting at its Emiri Diwan premises. Following the meeting, HE the Deputy Premier and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs said the Cabinet reviewed topics on the agenda and took a set of decisions and measures. The Cabinet approved a draft decision of the Council of Ministers amending some provisions of decision No. (22) of 2014 to reorganize the educational certificates equation committee. The Committee is concerned with the equivalence of educational certificates of various degrees in accordance with the conditions and regulations proposed in this regard and approved by the Council of Ministers upon the submission of the Minister of Education and Higher Education. Under the amendment, the Committee shall be formed of three members representing the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, and membership of a representative from each of: the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (engineer), the Ministry of Justice (legist), the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labor and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Public Health (doctor), Qatar University (academic), Hamad bin Khalifa University (academic). Meanwhile, the Cabinet looked into facilitating the procedures of the approval of the Council of Ministers on the validity of the retirement and pensions law for Qatari workers in some quarters in the private sector as an incentive for them to work in this sector. The Cabinet approved a draft air services agreement between the Government of the State of Qatar and the Government of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, a draft air services agreement between the Government of the State of Qatar and the Government of the Republic of Guinea Bissau, and draft Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation in the area of the National Archives field between the Ministry of Justice in the State of Qatar and the Ministry of Justice of the Federal Republic of Brazil. The Cabinet also reviewed the following topics and took the appropriate decisions: a memo by HE the Minister of Finance about a draft law of Qatar Financial Center, and a memo by HE the Minister of Finance about a proposal by Qatar Development Bank to issue a circular of the uniform national definition of small and medium-sized projects in the State of Qatar. (QNA)