Qatar's foreign minister accuses Germany of ‘double standards’ over its criticism of the FIFAWorldCup host's human rights record and defends its summoning of the German ambassador
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"On the one side, the German population is misinformed by government politicians; on the other, the government has no problem with us when it comes to energy partnerships or investments," said Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper in an interview.
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