By IRNA,
Berlin : German Chancellor Angela Merkel held closed-door talks with Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani in Berlin here Monday evening.
The chancellor’s office did not release any details of the high-profile meeting.
News photographers were invited to see the prime minister’s arrival at the chancellery, but reporters were kept in the dark on the meeting as no joint press briefing was scheduled for the visit.
Merkel and Sheikh Hamad were supposed to dwell on bilateral political and economic questions as well as international issues, including Iran, Iraq and the latest developments in the Middle East.
Meanwhile, the German press agency DPA reported that Sheikh Hamad’s visit coincided with a security mishap over two unexploded parcel bombs sent from Yemen as Qatar Airways confirmed on Sunday that it had unwittingly shipped one of the parcels on two of its passenger planes.