World faces security challenges with humanitarian consequences; Qatar plays vital role in promoting global peace, security: Prime Minister

Doha, Qatar: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani affirmed that the mounting geopolit...

Doha, Qatar: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani affirmed that the mounting geopolitical tensions among various powers worldwide- culminating in the return of the peril of nuclear weapons proliferation and new wars with conventional weapons -represent major challenges whose catastrophic consequences transcend the national and regional borders, as well as battle fields, thus reaching cyberspaces.

His Excellency pointed out that with the emergence of a multitude of competing influence centers, the new conflict and conventional wars between major powers will unequivocally jeopardize the international system, citing the war in Ukraine, to name a few, which rocked the global energy markets and dramatically reduced food security, with the traces of the central state in Africa being obliterated due to the crisis in Sudan and its surrounding, in addition to the political polarizations in the Americas, the escalation between the United States and China, with major consequences on the global supply chains and international trade.

This came in His Excellency's inaugural speech on Monday before the sixth Global Security Forum held at the Sheraton Doha Hotel under the theme: "'Strategic Competition: The Complexity of Interdependence.'

HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs highlighted that the participants are poised to discuss the security challenges facing the world at this event and will objectively review the details of the global security reality, along with the potential risks and means of neutralizing them, affirming that they will take the advantage of the forum-generated opportunities.

In the world that has witnessed massive transformations in the past few years, crises and conflict are mushrooming and threatening the global peace and security in an unprecedented way, spawning military wars and conflict, cyber-attacks, where espionage and hacking operations are morphing into environmental disasters and humanitarian crises, along with mass exodus, His Excellency added.