Costa Rica seeks to strengthen relations with Qatar • costadevelopers.com

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The Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Qatar, Ali Bin Fahed the Hajiri and the Deputy Foreign Minister of Costa Rica, Gioconda Ubeda met recently in order to strengthen and improve the bilateral relations between the two countries.
At a meeting held with the press, the Vice-Minister Úbeda and the representative of Qatar said that the main objective of this meeting was the promotion and strengthening of diplomatic relations between the two, especially in the field of culture, foreign investment and the stimulation of tourism.
"Have talked about the situation we have in some conventions and can materialize in the next months. I am referring to the conventions of technical cooperation and cultural cooperation agreements and we are also negotiating an agreement for the air theme" Ubeda told the press.
In addition, Ubeda mentioned that there is a relationship that is being built with great intensity and that there is a great interest on the part of both countries to accelerate strengthening and deepening in such issues.
Both Qatar and Costa Rica have an existing agreement on the issue of investment and expected that you for the next year sign-up tax and cultural cooperation agreements. One of the effects of this meeting was the creation of a Costa Rica-Qatar cultural week which will be held annually in way alternately in the two countries and its first edition will be the next year in Costa Rica.
Both countries will explore possibilities to relax formalities for citizens of Qatar on the subject of visas, as well as the possibility of creating a direct flight between Costa Rica and Qatar.
In the tourist aspect is considered to Costa Rica as a gateway to Central America, as well as Qatar corresponds to a port for the countries of the Persian Gulf.
To the Hajiri stressed that Qatar has defined plans for global investment for a lot of $ 100 billion for the next decades, with this amount it expects to benefit entrepreneurs and Costa Rican investors.
Both countries established diplomatic relations in 2004 and strengthened in the year 2010.
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