Sir Keir Starmer has held a meeting with the Emir of Qatar in 10 Downing Street, on the final day of his state visit to the UK. The prime minister hailed the "strong partnership" between the two countries and the Emir paid tribute to the "great relationship we have together". Qatar's Emir was then shown the Treaty of Friendship, which was signed between the two countries in Geneva in 1971 after the country declared its independence. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:25Let me just extend a very, very warm welcome and say it's a real privilege to be able to
00:51welcome you here for your state visit, my first state visit as a Prime Minister. So
00:58to have that between our two countries is such a strong partnership already and so much
01:02more that we can do together is really fantastic. Alongside the investment we're able to announce
01:09today and thank you for your vital role in difficult issues like the Middle East where
01:15we really value the leadership. So we've got plenty to discuss but it's a very, very warm
01:20welcome. It's very, very good to have you here. Thank you very much, Prime Minister. It's great
01:26seeing you. First of all, I would like to thank His Majesty the King for this warm hospitality
01:34and the dinner we had last night just shows, you know, it's a celebration of our relationship.
01:40This morning I had also the opportunity to go and visit Santa to meet some of my old friends and
01:45also I met some of the pilots of the Joint Squadron from both sides, Qatari pilots and
01:52British pilots. So we're very happy with this cooperation. We're very proud of it.
01:57Of course, we're going to be discussing with my dear friend, the Prime Minister,
02:02this great relationship that we have together and we're going to be also discussing this crisis in
02:08Al-Azhar and we're going to be talking about some details on how to go forward and how to try and
02:14put an end for this crisis. So I'm very happy to see you. So thank you. Great, thank you.
02:18The relationship, the friendship... This is this Article 1? Exactly, Article 1, you see,
02:23by through Article 1 both Qatar and the United Kingdom pledge to work together
02:29towards stability and peace in the region.