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His Highness the Emir appoints the prime minister and ministers, accepts their resignations and relieves them from their posts by Emiri Decrees. He may entrust the tasks of one ministry or more to a minister or the Prime Minister in accordance with the Emiri Decree designating the appointment. The cabinet is formed by an Emiri Decree based on the proposal of the Prime Minister. The responsibilities and authorities of the ministers and government departments are specified according to the law.

The Prime Minister chairs the sessions and discussions of the Council of Ministers and supervises work coordination between different ministries with a view to achieving the unity and integration among all government organs .The Prime Minister signs, on behalf of the Council of Ministers, the resolutions issued by the Council.

According to the provisions of this constitution, the Prime Minister submits to the Emir, for ratification and issuance, the resolutions taken by the Council of Ministers and pertaining to matters to be decided by Emiri Decrees.

The Council of Ministers, being the supreme executive authority in the country, is mandated to monitor all the internal and external affairs within its jurisdiction in accordance with the provisions of the constitution and the law.
The council is particularly entrusted with the following tasks:

1- To propose draft laws and decrees which are referred to the Advisory Council (Majilis Al Shura) to be discussed before being submitted to H.H. the Emir for ratification and issuance in accordance with the provisions of the constitution.
2- To endorse resolutions and regulations prepared by ministries within their individual areas of jurisdiction.
3- To supervise the implementation of laws, decrees, resolutions, regulations and court judgements.
4- To create and organize government organs and public institutions in accordance with the law.
5- To monitor state financial and administrative systems.
6- To recruit and dismiss government employees where such action does not encroach the jurisdiction of H.H. the Emir and individual ministers.
7- To supervise the performance of civil service and civil servants.
8- To create the systems required to uphold internal security and public order.
9- To monitor the State finances and prepare the state draft budget.
10- To endorse economic projects and the means of implementation thereof.
11- To supervise the protection of state interests abroad, including international relations and foreign policy, in accordance with the law.
12- To prepare, at the beginning of each fiscal year, a detailed report on the most outstanding achievements accomplished at the internal and external levels, together with a plan defining the optimal means of achieving the comprehensive goals of development, bringing about the conditions leading to progress and prosperity and enhancing security and order in accordance with the fundamental principles governing the policy of the State as stipulated by its constitution. The report shall be submitted to H.H. the Emir for ratification.
13- To perform any other duties provided for in the constitution or the law.

His Excellency Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al-Thani
Prime Minister and Minister of Interior

Social Status:
- Married and father for five children.

Academic qualification:
- Obtained a Bachelor Degree in Police Sciences from the Durham Military College In the United Kingdom in 1984.
- Obtained a License Degree in Law from the Arab University of Beirut in 1995.

Work experience:
- Appointed Assistant Commander of the Reinforcement Detachment
- Appointed a Commander of the Special Operations Detachment.
- Appointed a Commander of the Special Unit.
- Appointed Assistant Director of the Special Security Forces.
- Appointed a Director of the Special Security Forces on 7/1/2002.
- Appointed a Commander of the Internal Security Forces (Lakhoya) on 6/9/2004.
- 26/7/2013 Appointed Prim Minister and Minister of Interior.

Special Merits:
- Attended several specialized and qualifying external and internal courses.
- Represented the State at several conferences, meetings and symposia.
- He was appointed as Minister of State for Interior on 2nd of July 2008

His Excellency Ahmad Bin Abdullah Bin Zaid Al-Mahmoud
Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of State for the Council of Ministers affairs

Academic Qualifications:
- B.A of Arabic and Islamic studies, Cairo University, 1976.
- MSC. Economics, Central Michigan University - USA, 1981. 

Professional Experience:
- Third secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the state of Qatar in 1976 and scaled in the diplomatic corps since.
- Head of the Economic Affairs Section, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Qatari National Committee of Education, Culture and Science, 1983.
- Charge d'affairs, Qatar's Embassy in Algeria, 1983.
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Qatar to Sultanate of Oman, 1984-1986.
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Qatar to USA from 1987-1989 and non-resident Ambassador in Mexico and Venezuela. 
- Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1989-1995.
- Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, 1995.
- Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in the new cabinet in October,1996. 
- General Coordinator of the Economic Summit Conference of the Middle East and North Africa held in Doha in 1997.
- Member of the council of Ministers in addition to his post as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, 1999.
- Chairman of the Standing Committee for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Projects, October 2001- September 2011.
- Member and Rapporteur of the Committee on the preparation of the Permanent Constitution of the State of Qatar, July 1999, which comes into force in 2004.
- Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Qatar since 2004 up now.
- Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Member of the Council of Ministers in the new cabinet in July, 2008.
- Chairman of the Committee on boundary issues, 1995 up to now.
- Chairman of Qatar Development Fund, February 2010 up to 2012.
- In charge of Darfur dossier in Qatar mediation for settlement of the conflict in Darfur.
- Deputy Prim Minister & Minister of State for the Council of Ministers affairs in September 2011 up to now.
- Member of the Higher Committee for Development Planning since November 2011.
- Led Qatars delegations to a number of international and regional meeting and conferences.

Languages:
- Arabic and English Languages.

Marital Status:
- Married with four children.