In the news: 2005
What the media say about The Doha Debates...
As controversial and timely as the latest headlines, The Doha Debates have been making news themselves. Here are a few of the stories that have aired or been written about us:
Israel is holding up UN aid shipments to Palestinians through Ashdod port, aid from Turkey by road through Jordan, and also hindering aid distribution through the Palestinian territories, according to Ghassan Al Khatib, Minister of Labour in the Palestinian Authority, speaking to Khaleej Times in Doha after attending "The Doha Debate on the Roadmap to Middle East Peace.
Her Highness Sheikha Moza, the wife of the emir of Qatar, has set out to transform the oil-and-gas-rich state into a model for reform in the Persian Gulf.
The latest in the series of Doha Debates, focusing on tomorrow's elections in Iraq, will be televised on BBC World today at 5.10pm and tomorrow at 1.10am local time.
Let the occupiers leave Iraq first and then we can solve our problems, by our ways, between ourselves," said the former Iraqi ambassador to UN, who attended the monthly Doha Debate organized by the Qatar Foundation on Monday night...[he] said the new parliament would not represent all the Iraqi people and believes that elections should not be held in the "current severe consequences.
Around 63% of the audience at the third Doha Debate voted against the motion that Iraq's neighbours have no wish to see a democracy in the war-hit country.
