Djibouti and Qatar discuss data centre cooperation in Doha
Djibouti's communications minister, Helem, held talks with his Qatari counterpart, Al Mannai, on the sidelines of an ITU conference.
Djibouti's minister Helem met Qatari minister Al Mannai in Doha, the Qatari capital, while attending the Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations agency for digital technologies, which opened on Monday. The two sides reviewed the state of their cooperation on three topics: capacity building, communications and the development of data centres.
Helem praised the quality of the cooperation between the two countries and reaffirmed Djibouti's commitment to consolidating the partnership. Al Mannai praised the close and productive ties and said the Qatari government was determined to strengthen the cooperation further. Djibouti's ambassador to Qatar, Dayib Doubad Robleh, attended the meeting.
The ITU conference takes place every four years and is the union's supreme decision-making body, bringing together representatives of its 194 member states at the exhibition and congress centre in Doha. Delegates are due to elect the organisation's leadership for the next four years.
Why it mattersDelegates at the Doha conference will choose the ITU's leadership for the next four years, a decision that sets the agency's digital priorities for that period.