250 Riyals WTO Doha

Qatar's accession to the World Trade Organization was already a done deal — the country joined in 1996 — but the Fourth WTO Ministerial Conference, held in Doha in November 2001, elevated Qatar's profile considerably on the global trade stage. The Doha Development Round launched at that conference became one of the most protracted and ultimately unsuccessful multilateral trade negotiations in WTO history, still formally unresolved decades later.

The Qatar Central Bank issued this piece to mark the hosting of that conference, a relatively rare commemorative output from a mint program that has never been prolific.