DUBAI – Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa clarified on Tuesday that there was no indication of rapprochement with Doha over the Qatar crisis.
Addressing the audience at the seventeenth edition of the Arab Media Forum, the minister expressed that there have been transgressions, and pledges that have not been met by Qatari regime adding that it was impossible to talk about a solution to the crisis due to the ‘disrespect of commitments’.
It is important to search for other solutions to deal with this issue, he stated.
Highlighting that the Gulf Cooperation Council was capable of solving Qatar crisis, Sheikh Khalid stressed that GCC was not threatened by the crisis.
Arab Crisis
On June 5, last year five Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Yemen and Egypt announced to cut all diplomatic relations with fellow Gulf Arab state, Qatar, for allegedly supporting terrorism and extremism.
Saudi Arabia’s official state news agency, citing an official source, said the Kingdom had decided to break relations with Qatar “proceeding from the exercise of its sovereign right guaranteed by international law and the protection of national security from the dangers of terrorism and extremism”.
