US-QATAR business council

After coming to power in 1995 the new Emir, Shaikh Hamad bin Khalifah Al Thani, quickly inaugurated a far reaching and extremely progressive program to modernize Qatar politically, socially and economically. The modernization program includes the complete reorganization of the educational system, creation of a democratically elected municipal council with universal suffrage, development of Qatar’s natural gas resources, the establishment of a free press and the drafting of Qatar’s first Constitution.

In foreign affairs, the Government of Qatar has become the first country in the region to resolve all its border disputes with its neighbors including Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Iran and has developed an extremely close strategic relationship with the United States.