KUWAIT CITY (Sputnik) – Russia does not want to compete with other states in order to take the lead helping to negotiate the settlement of the diplomatic row surrounding Qatar, and fully supports Kuwait’s efforts to solve the dispute, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday.
Qatar has announced that it is sending an Ambassador to Tehran for the first time since 2016 when under Saudi pressure Doha recalled its envoy to the Islamic Republic.
In brief statement from Doha reads,
“The State of Qatar announced today that its ambassador to Tehran will return to exercise its diplomatic duties”.
Qatar further stated that the state seeks to,
“strengthen bilateral relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran in all fields”.
Senior US officials including presidential adviser Jared Kushner have met with leaders in Saudi Arabia and Qatar to discuss the peace process between the Israelis and Palestinians, the state news agencies of the two Gulf countries said late on Tuesday.
Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, US negotiator Jason Greenblatt and deputy national security adviser Dina Powell met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah, then flew to Doha to meet the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani.
Using the Establishment to Skewer the Establishment: UK Foreign Policy in the Middle East
by Ian Sinclair
Morning Star
19 July 2017
While the political and diplomatic dispute between Qatar and its opponents in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and UAE and Egypt appears to have predictably solidified into a medium term ‘cold war in the desert’, the propaganda war continues at full throttle.
READ MORE: COLD WAR IN THE DESERT–How the Qatar crisis is becoming a stalemate
Turkish and Qatari navies have carried out a joint exercise as Qatar’s economic blockade by Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries entered into third month. The Qatari military said the exercise was aimed at exchanging information, training senior military officials, and improving coordination between the two forces to boost security. Brigadier Hadi Rashid Al Shahwani, commander of the exercise,[Read More...]
A Qatari employee of Al Jazeera Arabic language TV news channel walks past the logo of Al Jazeera in Doha, Qatar. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)
Al Jazeera says it will take legal action against Israel after Tel Aviv announced it will close the pan-Arab news network’s offices in the country.
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(MEE) — Saudi Arabia has described criticisms by Qatar of restrictions on access of its citizens to the annual Hajj pilgrimage as a “declaration of war” as the diplomatic row in the Gulf escalates.
