HE the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Defence Affairs Dr Khalid bin Mohamed al-Attiyah chaired the Cabinet's regular meeting at the Amiri Diwan on TUesday morning. Following the meeting, HE the Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs issued a statement on the details of the proceedings. The Cabinet approved its draft decision on the formation of a committee to regulate the ownership of real estate by diplomatic and consular missions in the country and their work system, the Qatar News Agency reported. The preparation of the draft decision comes in implementation of the provisions of Article 3 of Law No 3 of 2022 regulating the ownership of real estate by diplomatic and consular missions in the country, by establishing the aforementioned committee at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is concerned with the following: 1. Studying real estate ownership applications submitted by the missions, and submitting recommendations regarding them to HE the Minister. 2. Proposing any other conditions and regulators for the missions to own or build real estate, and present them to HE the Minister. The Cabinet also approved a proposal to increase non-Qatari investors' ownership rate in the capital of Qatar Electricity and Water Company (QEWC), a Qatari public shareholding company listed on the stock exchange. Under this decision, a non-Qatari investor may own up to 100% of the capital of the company. Further, the meeting approved a draft decision of the Board of Directors of the Qatar Financial Markets Authority (QFMA) on the system for settling disputes arising from transactions related to securities through arbitration. The Cabinet, meanwhile, took the necessary measures to ratify a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for co-operation in the field of environmental protection between the governments of Qatar and Georgia. It also approved a draft agreement on the promotion and protection of mutual investments between the governments of Qatar and the Dominican Republic; and a draft memorandum of co-operation on providing a set of specialised educational vocational programmes for primary and early education students between the Ministry of Education and Higher Education and Injaz Qatar. The Cabinet reviewed a report of the National Cyber Security Agency regarding the launch of the 'Cybersecurity Educational Curricula' project, and took the appropriate decision thereon.
