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Issue # 2
Busy, all day, on inauguration day His Excellency Sheikh Abdhullah Bin Nasser Bin Khalif Al-Thani, the Qatari Prime Minister and Minister for the Interior, accompanied by French Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve, opened Milipol 2014 yesterday morning amongst the flashes and whirrs of numerous journalists covering the event. Surrounded by a swarm of officials the two ministers walked around the show before attending the signature in the Ministerial Lounge of two conventions, one with the police, the other with the gendarmerie (see inside pages for more details on these conventions). The French minister then made a special visit to the French pavilion and French stands accompanied, amongst others, by the director general of the French police, Jean-Marc Falcone. The Qatari Ministry of the Interior has allocated 10m Qatari Riyals (€2.15m) to buy products needed by the various departments of the Ministry such as the General Directorate of Coasts and Borders Security,
the General Directorate of Information Systems, the National Command Centre, the Internal Security Force (Lekhwiya) and others to directly purchase the products they need from this exhibition in coordination with Brigadier Saud Al Shafi, the director of the procurement department. There were also two conventions signed between the ministries of the interior of Qatar and Azerbaijan that you can read about in tomorrow’s issue. Brigadier Nasser bin Fahad Al-Thani, the chairman of the Milipol Committee remarks that the show is a perfect place for Qatari companies such as Rail, the company responsible for building Qatar’s railway and metro network and that will need surveillance cameras and other security devices to see what is available on the market. Once the official delegations had left the show got down to business. For the first time the show, in line with other trade shows the world over, is open all day and does not close for lunch.
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