Qatar navigates blockade by implementing new Oman route

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Doha flatly rejects claims it is a sponsor of terrorism. Schools built with funds from Saudi Arabia are spreading across the Horn of Africa.

The United Arab Emirates will not deport Qataris who are married to Emirati nationals, Abu Dhabi-based newspaper The National reported on Monday, June 12, a week after severing ties with Doha and giving Qataris 14 days to leave, Reuters says. Western officials have expressed concerns that Qatar may be backing fundamentalist groups, but they have raised similar issues about Saudi Arabia as well. Countries across the world - including Japan, China, Pakistan, the UK, France, Turkey, Brazil and Argentina - rely on the state-run corporation for much of their energy needs.

Jeddah - The trips of Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani have not ceased.

Saudi Arabia accused its fellow Gulf Co-operation Council member of supporting a range of violent groups, from proxies of Shiite Muslim Iran to the Sunni militants of Islamic State.

"It's time to work for Qatar", Khayyat told Bloomberg. I think it is an orchestrated campaign against Qatar to change its active, independent foreign policy.

Gulf leaders have also been critical of Qatar's relatively neutral stance on Iran, which they view as a prime destabilizing force in the region.

Iran, long at odds with Saudi Arabia, has called for the two sides to overcome their differences. Qatari airways have also been banned from using the airspace of the Saudi-led bloc of countries.

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More than a third of the world's liquefied natural gas trade comes from Qatar, making it the world's largest producer and exporter of LNG.

"If our Qatari neighbours require any assistance from Iran, Iran will be ready to provide that assistance". Al Khayyat is one of Qatar's biggest businessmen in the construction industry and has even built the biggest mall of Qatar.

Qatar imports mainly from the United States and Germany but also from Saudi Arabia.

But he supported moves by Kuwait to act as a mediator in the dispute "with the help of friendly countries such as the United States", he added.

Al Thani praised French President Emmanuel Macron Monday for being "very active" in attempting to find a "solution to the problem".

On Friday, Tillerson urged Qatar's neighbors to ease their blockade and called for "calm and thoughtful dialogue".

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