HE the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani met separately yesterday with Deputy Prime Minister for Judicial Reform and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria Ekaterina Zaharieva, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Pakistan Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Albania Ditmir Bushati, and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation of Somalia Ahmed Isse Awad. The meetings were held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Discussions during the meetings dealt with relations between the State of Qatar and these countries, and ways to boost them, as well as a number of regional and international issues of common concern.