(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Doha, June 18 (QNA) - The Qatari Foreign Ministry has expressed strong condemnation of mentioning the State of Qatar''s name in the verdict issued Saturday by Cairo Criminal Court in the case known as ''Qatar espionage''.
Director of The Information Office at the Ministry HE Ambassador Ahmed Al Rumaihi said that ''Though it is not final, the verdict is unfounded, goes against truth and contains misleading claims which are contrary to the policy of the State of Qatar towards all sister countries, including Egypt. The charge of espionage for Qatar against a former president and media men is surprising and unacceptable, he said.
He pointed that the issuance of such a verdict is not surprising after the death and life sentences issued by Egyptian courts in the last two years and abolished by the Egyptian Court of Cassation.
He stressed that such verdicts which lack the proper sense of justice and which are founded on reasons unrelated to the law, but on other known reason, do not help in consolidating the fraternal ties and relations between the sister countries.
HE Ambassador Ahmed Al Rumaihi stressed that Qatar comes at the forefront of the countries that sided with the Egyptian people since the eruption of the January 25 revolution. This stance stems from the genuine duty between brotherly Arab peoples, he added.
He said that the State of Qatar has been and will remain committed to the fraternal values and bonds with the brotherly Egyptian people. (QNA)