Eisar gets a shuffle

Cabinet signed off on changing two members of Eisar (the Bankruptcy Commission), appointing Waseem bin Samir Al Sourani and Musab bin Abdel Mohsen Aljammaz to the commission, state news agency SPA reports. The other four members of the commission remained unchanged.

The council of ministers also approved several agreements, including two with Pakistan covering customs cooperation and technical and vocational training.

Among other agreements approved:

• Two air transport agreements with Suriname and Lithuania;
• A tax treaty with Iceland preventing double taxation;
• An MoU between the General Authority for Statistics and Unicefs Gulf Office on multi-indicator cluster surveys;
• An MoU on economic cooperation with Comoros;
• A cultural cooperation agreement with Japan;
• An education assessment and accreditation with Mauritania.