On Wednesday, February 4, 2026, Her Excellency Madame Kaba Nialé, State Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, held a meeting with His Excellency Mr. Mubarak bin Hussain Al-Marri, Ambassador of the State of Qatar to the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire.

This meeting is part of ongoing efforts to strengthen and deepen cooperation between the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire and the State of Qatar.

The discussions focused primarily on the progress of several bilateral legal instruments. Both parties reviewed agreements that have already been signed but not yet ratified by the Ivorian side, including the convention on the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of tax evasion with respect to income taxes, signed in Doha on December 7, 2022, and the agreement on employment regulation, signed on September 17, 2018, in Doha and ratified by Qatar on January 2, 2019.

The talks also addressed ongoing negotiations on prospective agreements, including those on mutual administrative assistance in customs matters, reciprocal visa exemptions for holders of diplomatic, special, and official passports, mutual recognition of seafarers’ certificates, and port cooperation. Furthermore, both officials discussed the finalization of procedures for signing agreements with Education Above All and the Qatar Development Fund.

During the audience, Ambassador Al-Marri also requested Côte d’Ivoire’s support for two Qatari candidacies: first, to the council of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for the 2027–2030 term, with elections scheduled in Doha in November 2026; and second, to host the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in 2029, with the host country to be selected in October 2026 in Bangkok.

Under other matters, the two sides exchanged views on the ceasefire agreement signed in Doha on February 2, 2026, between the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Congo River Alliance, following the international conference on the Great Lakes region. They also recalled the Ivorian–Qatari political consultations held in February 2019 in Abidjan and discussed the upcoming Qatar–Africa Business Forum, for which the Ivorian side is expected to propose dates in November 2026.

Finally, the possibility of organizing a Quran reading competition in Côte d’Ivoire was raised, subject to guidance from the Ivorian government.