Qatar reaches out beyond the Gulf
Issue 966
- 26 Mar 2014
| 1 minute read
In the days since the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain withdrew their ambassadors from Qatar (GSN 965/1), Emir Sheikh Tamim has been taking calls from leaders in the region and beyond – among others, he has spoken to Oman’s Sultan Qaboos, France’s François Hollande, the UN’s Ban Ki-moon, Morocco’s King Mohammed VI, Tunisia’s Mehdi Jomaa and Lebanon’s Michel Sleiman. Undeterred by its isolation within the GCC, on 15 March, Qatar sent assistant minister for foreign affairs Mohammed Bin Abdullah Al-Rumaihi to Tehran for “political consultations”.
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