"We don't see that he's pointing fingers at Qatar", Qatar's ambassador to Washington, Meshal bin Hamad Al Thani said.
The rupture is based on the accusation that the Qatari government finances terrorist organisations, including the Islamic State, Al Qaida and the Muslim Brotherhood, an accusation that Qatar has denied.
The transit ban on Qataris is stricter than the restrictions for Israeli passport holders who are allowed up to 24 hours to change planes at UAE airports, even though Israel and the United Arab Emirates don't have diplomatic relations.
The minister added that Qatar would respect its LNG gas agreement with the United Arab Emirates, despite the UAE allying with Saudi Arabia in the rift.
The gas-rich emirate still hosts the US airbase of Al-Udeid, which is home to some 10,000 USA troops and is a crucial hub in the fight against Islamic State group extremists in Syria and Iraq.
Qatar's credit quality would decline if tensions with its Gulf neighbors continue for much longer, raising the country's debt ratio and hurting banks' liquidity, Moody's ratings agency said on Thursday.
Anxious residents have responded to the crisis by emptying grocery stores in the capital of Doha, and Saudi Arabia has blocked trucks carrying food from entering the country across its only land border. A Qatar Airways spokesman confirmed the move.
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He said that in "today's global context", his discussions in Spain would focus on worldwide developments. Modi's tour also leads him to France and Russian Federation - but not to former colonial power Britain.
UAE airlines Etihad and Emirates said all travellers holding Qatari passports were now prohibited from travelling to or transiting through the emirates. Sheikh Hamad took over as Qatar's emir in 1995 and expanded his nation's presence on the global scene through negotiating hostage releases, briefly flirting with diplomatic ties to Israel, hosting a Taliban office and creating Al-Jazeera. Turkey's parliament, on the other hand, has approved sending troops to an existing Turkish base in Qatar as a sign of support. "No one is giving them the right to separate families and displace people. Are we living really in the 21st century?"
Trump spoke with King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, according to a White House statement.
But Sheikh Mohammed told the AP that Sheikh Tamim "is not going to leave the country while the country is in blockade", in effect turning down the mediation offer.
"Any de-escalation to the crisis is likely to require a leadership change in Qatar", Control Risks, a consulting firm, wrote in an assessment of the crisis.
A Qatari official had no immediate comment on the designations but said that Qatar adheres to United Nations Security Council resolutions on countering terrorism including eradicating sources of financing for terrorism.
The FBI have reportedly accused Russian hackers of planting a false news story about the Qatari Emir on May 23.
It was the third reported hack of Qatari organizations in the last 14 months.
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