Qatar FM: No sign of breakthrough in Persian Gulf crisis
Tehran (KNA) - The Qatari foreign minister says there is no sign of breakthrough in the Persian Gulf diplomatic crisis, which has seen a Saudi-led quartet of states impose a blockade against Qatar.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said in an interview with Bloomberg that no steps have been taken towards the resolution of the diplomatic dispute since the latest summit of the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in December 2018.
His remarks to Bloomberg was published on Wednesday by the website of the Qatari Foreign Ministry.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and non-member Egypt all cut off diplomatic ties with Qatar in June last year, after officially accusing it of "sponsoring terrorism," which Doha has rejected.
Later that month, Saudi Arabia and its allies released a 13-point list of demands, including the closure of Al Jazeera television network, downgrade of relations with Iran and the closure of a Turkish military base in Qatar, in return for the normalization of diplomatic relations with Doha.
Qatar rejected those demands as an attack on the country's sovereignty and interference in its domestic affairs and foreign policy agenda.
The minister further said Doha remains open to dialog over the dispute with the Saudi-led boycotters, but at the same time sticks to its own national agenda.
Source: PressTV