During that time, the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated its full appreciation for the governments of Ukraine and Russia for their cooperation and commitment to ensuring safety and security of the children and providing appropriate care for them during and prior to this operation.
In addition, Qatar mediated in detainee exchange agreement between the United States and Iran in August 2023. The deal included the release of 5 Iranians who were detained in the United States.
It resulted in the lifting the ban on $6 billion of Tehran’s funds.
It also resulted in the Iranian funds frozen in South Korea being transferred and deposited in Qatari banks.
Reciprocally, Iran released five United States’ citizens it had held as prisoners who arrived in Doha and were then transferred back to their country from here.
Since 2013 and heretofore, Qatar has succeeded in mediating in more than10 major regional and global issues, thanks to its record which abounds with successes in mediation, including Sudan, where the State of Qatar played a pioneering role in making peace in Sudan and hosted the peace talks in Doha during 2013 to 2018.
Qatar has a greater role in the ongoing efforts to solve the Sudanese crisis, along with its attempts to stop the war currently ongoing between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and co-chaired the Sudan Pledging Conference 2023: Ministerial Pledging Event to Support the Humanitarian Response in Sudan and the Region alongside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Arab Republic of Egypt, Federal Republic of Germany, and the United Nations, represented by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA, European Union, and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
