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| ▲ Choi Jong-Geon, the first Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs (left), who is visiting the Middle East, is interviewing with Foreign Minister Mohamed Qatar. | |
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Choi Jong-Geon, the first vice minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, visited nearby Qatar for help, who visited Iran for the early removal of the detention of the Korean national oil tanker’Korea Chemie’.
Vice Minister Choi Jong-Geon is visiting Qatar after visiting Iran from the 10th to the 12th. In Iran, Vice Minister Choi interviewed key figures from political relations and academia and tried to release the Korean Chemie’s detention early, but only after confirming the position of the Iranian side insisting that “they must follow their own judicial procedures,” he left the country.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the 14th, Vice Minister Choi arrived in Qatar on the 13th and said that he had an interview with Saad Sherida al-Kabi, the Qatar Energy Minister and the CEO of Qatar Oil Corporation, who oversees Qatar’s energy policy such as oil and gas.
At this meeting, Vice Minister Choi evaluated the contract to reserve a space for building LNG vessels worth about $19.2 billion between Qatar Gas Corporation and the three Korean shipbuilders (Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, Samsung Heavy Industries, and Hyundai Heavy Industries), which was established in June last year, and expanded the gas field in northern Qatar in the future. And LNG transportation business, etc., expressed their expectation for expanding cooperation between the two countries.
Deputy Minister Choi followed by Mohamed bin Abdullahman bin Jashim al-Sani, Qatar Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Sultan bin Saad al-Muraiki, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. I decided to continue.
In particular, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Vice Minister Choi asked them to give Qatar as much assistance as possible to resolve Iran’s detention of Korean ships.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs assessed that “Vice Minister Choi’s visit to Qatar was made in six years as the first vice minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in conjunction with the recent changes in the favorable situation surrounding Qatar, it laid the foundation for expanding economic cooperation between the two countries, such as expanding orders for Korean companies.” .
Vice Minister Choi returns home on the afternoon of the 14th after visiting the Middle East for 5 days and 4 nights.