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12-05-2017, 03:56 AM
KUWAIT CITY: Gulf foreign ministers gathered Monday in Kuwait on the eve of an annual summit bringing together Qatar and its feuding neighbours despite little hope for an end to the bitter rift.
Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani will be at the summit, but less than 24 hours before it was due to begin it was still unclear whether the rulers of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain would also attend.
Those three Gulf states, together with Egypt, cut all ties with Qatar on June 5, accusing the gas-rich emirate of supporting Islamist extremists and of being too close to Shiite Iran, Riyadh?s arch-rival. Qatar denies the allegations.
Mediation efforts led by Kuwait have failed to resolve what is the worst crisis to hit the Gulf Cooperation Council in its 36-year history, casting serious doubts over the future of the six-state alliance.
As Kuwait readied to host the two-day GCC summit, analysts said its efforts to bring about a peaceful end to the crisis may be at a complete standstill.?The crisis is too deep and very complicated... I don?t think it will be resolved during the summit,? said independent Kuwaiti political analyst Saleh al-Saeedi.
?But I think Kuwait hopes to at least freeze the dispute, stop its deterioration and move on to the next step.?Founded in 1981, the GCC is a political and economic union grouping Qatar with Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as well as Oman and Kuwait.Qatar has accused the Saudi-led Arab bloc of aiming to incite a change of regime in Doha. Besides the Qatari emir, it is still unclear who will attend.Oman has said it will be sending a senior official to represent its ruler Sultan Qaboos, who traditionally stays away from summits.The other GCC states have yet to announce who they would be sending, although some Kuwaiti media have reported Saudi King Salman may attend.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/World-TheNewsInternational/~4/oH9IPtnTUVg
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Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani will be at the summit, but less than 24 hours before it was due to begin it was still unclear whether the rulers of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain would also attend.
Those three Gulf states, together with Egypt, cut all ties with Qatar on June 5, accusing the gas-rich emirate of supporting Islamist extremists and of being too close to Shiite Iran, Riyadh?s arch-rival. Qatar denies the allegations.
Mediation efforts led by Kuwait have failed to resolve what is the worst crisis to hit the Gulf Cooperation Council in its 36-year history, casting serious doubts over the future of the six-state alliance.
As Kuwait readied to host the two-day GCC summit, analysts said its efforts to bring about a peaceful end to the crisis may be at a complete standstill.?The crisis is too deep and very complicated... I don?t think it will be resolved during the summit,? said independent Kuwaiti political analyst Saleh al-Saeedi.
?But I think Kuwait hopes to at least freeze the dispute, stop its deterioration and move on to the next step.?Founded in 1981, the GCC is a political and economic union grouping Qatar with Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as well as Oman and Kuwait.Qatar has accused the Saudi-led Arab bloc of aiming to incite a change of regime in Doha. Besides the Qatari emir, it is still unclear who will attend.Oman has said it will be sending a senior official to represent its ruler Sultan Qaboos, who traditionally stays away from summits.The other GCC states have yet to announce who they would be sending, although some Kuwaiti media have reported Saudi King Salman may attend.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/World-TheNewsInternational/~4/oH9IPtnTUVg
أكثر... (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/World-TheNewsInternational/~3/oH9IPtnTUVg/252515-spotlight-on-qatar-as-gulf-gears-up-for-summit)