Qatar has rejected a enterprise and funding discussion board journey of President Bola Tinubu to the Arab nation.
The Embassy of the State of Qatar in Abuja acknowledged this in a letter dated February 22 2024 and addressed to the Protocol Division of the Ministry of International Affairs in Nigeria.
The go to of the President to Qatar was scheduled for March 2 and three, 2024.
However within the letter, which was acquired by the ministry on February 23 2024 and sighted by our correspondent on Saturday, the Ministry of Commerce and Business in Qatar apologised for the rejection of the proposed enterprise go to.
“The Embassy of the State of Qatar in Abuja presents its compliments to the Protocol Division of the Ministry of International Affairs of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“Concerning the upcoming state go to of H. E. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to Qatar from March 2 and three, 2024 and close to your word: Ref: ME.631 2024 dated 12/02/2024, which proposed the holding of a enterprise and funding discussion board on the margins of Mr President’s go to to Qatar on March 2, 2024.
“The Embassy has the honour to tell that the Ministry of Commerce and Business in Qatar apologises that it won’t be able to carry a enterprise and funding discussion board as proposed by the Nigerian facet,” a part of the letter learn.
The embassy defined that “there isn’t a settlement signed between the State of Qatar and the Federal Republic of Nigeria on funding promotion and safety.
“His Excellency, the Minister of Commerce and Business, shall be finishing up official missions exterior the nation throughout the upcoming go to interval.
“The State of Qatar shall be internet hosting an internet summit throughout the urged interval and the state’s authorities shall be preoccupied with this occasion.”
Nevertheless, the Presidency stated the Qatari authorities didn’t snub Tinubu.
It defined that the botched funding discussion board between the Nigerian and Qatari enterprise communities was solely one in all a number of occasions lined up forward of the President’s state go to to the Gulf nation.
“It’s not right for anybody to insinuate that the Qatari authorities have snubbed the Nigerian chief over a enterprise and funding discussion board which is tangential to the all-important state go to and which President Tinubu is slated to attend as a visitor,” an announcement signed by Tinubu’s Particular Adviser on Info and Technique, Bayo Onanuga, on Saturday learn.
Onanuga, in an announcement titled, ‘President Bola Tinubu’s state go to to Qatar,’ in response to a leaked word between the international ministries of each nations defined that Tinubu was anticipated to proceed to Qatar on the state go to as scheduled and throughout the go to, the Nigerian chief would have interaction in high-level bilateral discussions with Qatari chief on many necessary issues, protecting the complete vary of diplomatic and financial points.
The Presidency stated, “We’re conscious of a leaked diplomatic correspondence between the Embassy of the State of Qatar in Abuja and our Ministry of International Affairs concerning President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s state go to to Qatar between March 2 and three, 2024.
“The leaked diplomatic paper by mischief makers about an funding discussion board just isn’t in any manner a snub of President Tinubu by the Qatari authorities.”
