Next the Secretary-General held talks with the Kuwaiti Prime Minister, Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Hamad al-Sabah.
Saad al-Nifoos, and the Sunni tribal official, Sheik Hamad al-Jibouri, survived.
The talks were chaired by Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah, a former head of the oil cartel Opec.
Influential Arab leaders, including Syria's president, Bashar Assad, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and the wealthy emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad al-Khalifa, flew in to calm nerves.
Shia discontent often boiled over in the 1980s and 1990s, but abated after King Hamad al-Khalifa took power in 1999, freed prisoners in an amnesty, pardoned exiles and brought in reforms.
On July 25th, Qatar announced that Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Hamad al-Thani, cousin of the ruling emir, former economy minister and former police chief, had been arrested (snatched back, it is thought, from a hiding-place abroad) and would face trial immediately.
The president of OPEC, Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah, told the Wall Street Journal that the cartel would not cut production below 24m bpd unless big oil exporters outside OPEC, including Mexico and Norway as well as Russia, were prepared to cut production too.
But to His Excellency Abdullah Bin Hamad Al Attiyah , president of the conference and minister of energy and industry of Qatar, who addressed his fellow excellencies, sheikhs and ministers along with the emir of Qatar, the war was a bit of unpleasantness that barely merits mention.
The Forum saw the participation also of the Qatari Deputy Prime Minister, Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Atiya, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the Spanish Deputy Prime Minister, Manuel Chavez, President of Austria, Heinz Fischer, President of Germany, Christian Wulff and a representative of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
It was launched in 1996 by Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani of Qatar.
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani was in attendance in Zurich, and he thanked Fifa for "believing in change".
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani announced the doubling of funds after meeting Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi in Cairo.
BBC: Egypt finance: Qatar steps in to ease Cairo cash crisis
In Bahrain, King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa has convinced eight countries to convene an emergency Arab summit to discuss political unrest.
Last November, Qatar's emir, Sheik Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, opened the I.
In a press conference on Friday, Bahrain's Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Ahalifa expressed his reasoning behind the race going ahead.
CNN: Bahrain on the boil: Why can't F1 learn from its mistakes?
The Prize was created in 2005 and is placed under the patronage of HM King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa of the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani of Qatar said a time limit should be set for Mr Annan's mission - which began three months ago.
President Obama today met with Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the Amir of Qatar, a nation the United States works with on a range of issues, including security, military cooperation, commerce and trade.
Qatar's prime minister, Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, sought to downplay his country's image as the chief Arab patron for the opposition and dispel worries that it seeks to dominate the scene.
The ruling Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, wants to put his tiny country and its fast-growing capital Doha on the map, and is spending millions in a huge tourism push.
The President spoke with President Karzai of Afghanistan, Prime Minister, Monti of Italy, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar, President Putin of Russia, and President Rajoy of Spain.
President Barack Obama met Tuesday at the White House with Qatar's ruler, Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, and said their two countries will continue to work on more support for the Syrian opposition in the coming months.
He and his family obtained Bahraini nationality in 2001 under political reforms instituted by King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, who also cleared the way for parliamentary elections in Bahrain - seen as the main democratic experiment in the Gulf.
Only three people really count: the emir, his cousin the long-serving and dynamic prime minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, who also runs foreign policy and holds vast business interests, and, increasingly, Crown Prince Tamim, the Sandhurst-trained army chief.
Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, head of state in Qatar, launched Al Jazeera Arabic in 1996 by hiring a group of staffers from BBC's defunct Arabic service who had been kicked out of Saudi Arabia for airing an interview with Saudi dissidents.
The second main reason for Qatar's political stability is that the country's nationals enjoy a range of generous state handouts, which have swelled under the rule of the current emir, Emir Hamad bin Khalifah Al Thani, who overthrew his father in 1995.
"The sky's the limit, " replies His Excellency Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabor Al Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, and financial backer of the then proposed new property development at London Bridge.
Detailed talks between the government and the Justice and Equality Movement are scheduled to begin in two weeks after Tuesday's signing, Sheikh Hamad bin Jasim bin Jabr al-Thani, Qatar's prime minister, told the SUNA news agency.
At a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers Saturday, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani said Annan's peace initiative should be placed under Chapter VII of the U.N. charter, Qatar's news agency reported Saturday.
"The issue of Iraq and Kuwait is now resolved and we have agreed on a statement between Iraq and Kuwait which is acceptable to the two sides, " Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani told reporters after the first day of summit in Beirut.
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