Qatar National Day (QND) 2020 slogan will be announced tomorrow, Thursday, 3 December 2020, at 07:00 PM via the social media accounts affiliated with the QND. 

This comes according to a tweet on the account of QND 2020. 

The Organizing Committee of the QND celebrations has announced that Darb Al Saai (means the Route of the Messenger) activities will be not be held this year 2020.

The organizing committee on its Twitter account has said that this comes in view of the current circumstances, particularly those related to the repercussions of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, stressing that the celebrations will be held next year in a new shape.

Qatar National Day

On this glorious occasion, the National Day of the State of Qatar, the government expresses its sincere gratitude to its people - the people of Qatar – who joined efforts and demonstrated allegiance and loyalty to their country; and to the founder Sheikh Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani, as a father, a brother, a leader, and imam.

Since the time when he was young, Sheikh Jassim was known for his piety, courage, spirit of sacrifice, wisdom and diligence. The people of Qatar believed in him as a leader who could unify the Qatar peninsula, and look after the interests of its people, in one of the darkest times experienced by this part of the world. It was a time of tribal wars on land and piracy and looting at sea, which witnessed, also, the decline of Ottoman Empire.

The celebration of the National Day, on December 18 each year, commemorates the date when the late His Highness Sheikh Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani, the founder of modern Qatar assumed the rule of the country in 1878.