Foreign Minister: ''There is No Way Qatar Would be Striped of the Right to Host World Cup''

Foreign Minister: ''There is No Way Qatar Would be Striped of the Right to Host World Cup''

Paris /Information Office/ 04 June 2015/ HE the Foreign Minister Dr. Khalid bin Mohammed Al-Attiyah has confirmed that the State of Qatar would not be striped of the right to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. In an interview with Reuters news agency in Paris, HE the Foreign Minister said it is very difficult for some to digest that and Arab Islamic country has this tournament, as if this right can't be for an Arab state" adding " I believe that it believed that prejudice that we have this bashing campaign against Qatar. Responding to a question on whether the State of Qatar will lose the right to organize the World Cup, the Foreign Minister said "There is no way Qatar would be striped of the right to host the World Cup. We are confident of the procedures and we deserve to win it because we presented the best file." "We are not in a position today to show what we have in terms of who is behind this campaign against Qatar and why the want to deprived Qatar of this right, he said adding " but when the time comes, we will show the public what we have, whether it comes from entities or countries from outside the region on not. The time hasn't come yet." On the situation in Iraq, HE the Foreign Minister Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah said, "Coalition air strikes in Iraq were hopeless without a real push for national reconciliation and that the door should be left open to those who leave Al-Qaeda's Syrian wing. "The international community has not done enough to press the parties in Iraq to begin national reconciliation. A big group of people in Iraq are being marginalized, if we don't do something to include them in the political process, then we are forcing them to join the other side," he said. "We see no hope in continuing an air campaign without simultaneously having a national dialogue on the ground," he said, and added, Iraq's Prime Minister Dr Haider Al Abadi needed help from all those who had influence in Iraq. Regarding Syria, HE the Minister said, there was "no will" from the international community to resolve the issue which had left the Syrian people with just a choice of the "tyranny of the regime or the brutality of the terrorist groups". "Today there are 300,000 people killed in Syria, do we forget all this and say that the Assad regime is the one going to fight terrorists?" "Qatar does not deal with Islamic State (ISIS) or Jubhat al-Nusra, but you always have to keep the door open for the Syrians who are with Jubhat al Nusra if they decide to depart from Qaeda and go back to their own people as Syrians," he said. One group of factions, the "Army of Fatah" alliance, has made gains in recent weeks against the Syrian military. "It is a group of so many groups whose tactics have joined them together. They are not terrorist groups. The element (the core) of Jaysh al-Fatah are not terrorists and we don't consider them extremists." He said Qatar, like its coalition allies, had helped groups in Syria, but that had not been enough.