In addition to closing their airspace to Qatar Airways, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have also shut down the airline's offices.
Akbar Al Baker told CNNMoney's Emerging Markets Editor John Defterios that the decision by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other states to severe diplomatic and transport links with Qatar amounted to an "illegal" blockade that the USA should be doing its best to resolve.
"We have legal channels to object to this", Al Baker said.
Sheikh Mohammed said the allegations on the Muslim Brotherhood were "false" and that it did not understand why it needed to sever ties with Hamas, since it was a resistance movement and not a terrorist group.
Pakistan has close ties with the kingdom but also business ventures in Qatar.
Qatar's port authority published video showing a container ship loaded down with cargo arriving at Doha's Hamad Port from Oman's port of Sohar to a water-cannon welcome.
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An FBI affidavit says victor confessed to copying and mailing the classified report when agents searched her home last Saturday. And there was a notation in one notebook, Solari said in which victor purportedly wrote, "I want to burn the White House down".
Qatar Airways has been hit hard by the dispute, with 18 destinations now out of bounds for the airline.
Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi tells reporters in a weekly news conference: "These countries should try to settle their differences at the negotiating table in a positive and comprehensive process".
He said the energy sector and economy of the world´s top liquefied natural gas exporter were essentially operating as normal and that there had not been a serious impact on supplies of food or other goods.
In Washington, US President Donald Trump, who has strongly backed the countries imposing sanctions on Qatar despite a more neutral stance taken by the State Department and Pentagon, said the measures were helping to stop terrorism funding.
Qatar's neighbors cut ties with the country over accusations that it sponsors Islamic extremism, which Qatar denies. The envoys of Qatar and Gulf states were attending the meeting.
Men withdraw cash from an ATM outside Qatar National Bank (QNB) in Doha, Qatar June 11, 2017. But since June 5, the UAE has joined Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt in cutting off sea traffic to Qatar as part of the nations cutting diplomatic ties. Global shipper Maersk already has said it will begin using Salalah for its shipments to Qatar.
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