Earlier, in a brief statement at the State Department, Tillerson had called Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt to ease their blockade, warning that it was causing humanitarian hardship in Qatar, harming USA and global business, and hindering us military actions against the Islamic State. Previously, the US had insisted the Qatar crisis wouldn't affect USA military efforts in the Middle East. On Monday, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE cut diplomatic ties with Qatar and shut down land, sea and air links, accusing it of supporting terror groups in the region.
The statement from Saudi Arabia and its allies said: "This list is connected to Qatar and serves suspicious agendas in an indication of the duality of Qatar policies". The administration is also demanding Qatar drop all support for Syria's Salafist groups; those which adhere to the ideology of al Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and their subsidiaries.
Speaking to Abu Dhabi's crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahayan, Trump advocated unity among Gulf Arabs "but never at the expense of eliminating funding for radical extremism or defeating terrorism". "We ask Qatar and other nations in the region to do more and do it faster".
It is also impairing USA business activities in the region and bringing about humanitarian consequences, he said. We're seeing shortages of food, families are being forcibly separated, and children are being pulled out of school. "But they can be addressed immediately".
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Trump spoke with the emir of Qatar on Wednesday, the White House announced, and "offered to help the parties resolve their differences", by hosting a meeting if necessary. The states accused Qatar of supporting terrorist groups, as well as of interfering in other countries' domestic affairs.
Qatar's Al Udeid Air Base is home to more than 11,000 USA and coalition forces and an important base for the fight against IS.
President Donald Trump contradicted his own secretary of state on Friday, hours after Rex Tillerson called on Gulf states to ease their blockade on Qatar. "I would like to reconfirm Qatar's position that all the disagreements should be solved through dialogue, and the format of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf is the most [favorable] for such dialogue", Al Thani said.
The FBI has sent a team of investigators to Qatar because they believe that Russian hackers are responsible for planting a fake news report that has led to the crisis in which all diplomatic ties to Qatar have been severed by Saudi Arabia and numerous other Gulf nations, according to a CNN report.
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