Countries That Broke Ties With Qatar Indicate Some Flexibility on Demands
Saudi said that Our aim is to reach a diplomatic solution,
ompromise — but no compromise on the six principles." The United Arab Emirates ambassador to the United Nations, Lana Nusseibeh, said
that regardless what happens next, "we’re never going back to the status quo — that needs to be understood by the Qataris." There was no immediate comment from Qatar’s United Nations ambassador, Alya Ahmed Al Thani. that of course we can c
Ms. Nusseibeh was joined at the news conference by Reem al Hashimy, the United Arab Emirates minister of state for
international cooperation, who said all four countries "are completely aligned" in their position regarding Qatar.
By RICK GLADSTONEJULY 18, 2017
Senior diplomats from the four Arab countries that have broken ties with Qatar indicated Tuesday
that they were no longer insisting on 13 precise demands that the Qataris must satisfy, or on a specific deadline for them to comply.
Speaking at a news conference convened by the United Arab Emirates at its mission to the United
Nations, the diplomats said they wanted and expected to resolve the crisis amicably.
Those false quotes, which appeared May 24 just after President Trump’s counterterrorism summit meeting with Arab nations in Saudi Arabia,
were among the catalysts for the Qatar crisis, which led the Emiratis, Saudis, Egyptians and Bahrainis to ban Qatari news media.