Qatar and France sign World Cup 2022 security deal

AFP  |  Doha 

and signed on Thursday a security agreement signed in following a meeting between the country's respective prime ministers.

No further details were given.

It was announced after a meeting between Sheikh and his French counterpart in the

The deal emphasises the close ties between and

Twenty-four hours earlier the French-designed national museum was opened to great fanfare in Doha, in a ceremony attended, among others, by former French

France's sporting ties to Qatar also include owning the French football champions, Paris Saint-Germain, as well as the French being seen as instrumental in helping to be hosted in the for the first time.

Qatar, at the centre of a bitter Gulf diplomatic split which has seen it blockaded by neighbouring former allies, had previously signed an air security agreement for 2022 with the

Under that deal, signed in April 2018, fighter jets and a Qatar/British "Joint Operation Squadron" will patrol the skies during the 2022 tournament.

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First Published: Thu, March 28 2019. 21:01 IST