"Qatar has become one of the traditional MotoGP dates," the crash.net website quoted Dorna chief executive Carmelo Ezpeleta as saying.
"We have an agreement until 2016 and we are starting to agree the new period. It is just a question to sign officially. We can already say that MotoGP will continue in Qatar for many more years."
"Qatar is our organiser for MotoGP and WSBK (Superbike)," added the Spaniard.
"Anything we do in the Middle East will be in agreement with Qatar. If we have an approach from other countries in the Middle East it is something we will discuss with Qatar."
Qatar has hosted MotoGP since 2004 and is currently the only Middle Eastern venue on the calendar, although Abu Dhabi has been mentioned in the past as a possible venue.
Qatar has also expressed an interest in joining Abu Dhabi and Bahrain in hosting Formula One but Bahrain, the first Middle Eastern country in that series, effectively has a veto on regional rivals.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Justin Palmer)
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