VOL. XXXI

NO. 43

1-AUGUST-1988

QATAR

US Suspends Economic and Military Cooperation with Qatar

The US announced on 27 July that it had suspended military and economiccooperation with Qatar in protest against the latter's unauthorized acquisitionof US Stinger antiaircraft missiles. The missiles were apparently publiclydisplayed in Doha last March during a military parade celebrating Qatar'sNational Day.

Speaking to the House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Europe and theMiddle East, the US...