The airspace closure was to protect the country and its citizens from anything it sees as a threat and as a precautionary measure, Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation said in a statement published by the Saudi Press Agency.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is working behind the scenes to help resolve the dispute between Qatar and its Arab neighbors.
"Look, last month President Trump visited Riyadh and gave a historic speech challenging America's Arab friends and partners to do more to combat the violent radicalization that is growing within Islam", one senior administration official told the Free Beacon. "I am extremely disappointed". France has economic and military ties with Qatar and other Gulf states.
In Paris, Sheikh Mohammed, who is on a European tour to drum up support for Qatar, said his country had no idea what had provoked the move against it.
Qatar denied all the allegations floated against it as baseless. The sprawling compound 20 miles southwest of the Qatari capital of Doha has about 11,000 US military personnel.
Nawaz Sharif's office issued a statement following his return from Saudi Arabia, where the Pakistani premier, accompanied by army chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa and senior ministers, sought to calm tensions over the standoff.
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Baker said 18 destinations were now out of bounds for the airline. Duty free sales at Doha airport are also suffering - they fell 25% in the past week, said Al Baker. He stressed that the carrier's rivals, such as Emirates and Etihad, have been hit by the blockade as well. "They may try to behave [as if] everything is normal but they are being hurt as much as Qatar Airways from this illegal blockade". Net income for the year ended March 31 jumped 22 percent to 1.97 billion riyals ($538.7 million), Qatar Air said last Sunday.
"We are now looking to increase our frequencies to markets that we couldn't operate because we had a capacity shortage".
Erdogan urged the king of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, to take a leading role in resolving the ongoing Gulf crisis with Qatar.
"It is actually a travesty of civilised behaviour to close airline offices". "We were sealed as if it was a criminal organization. We were not allowed to give refunds to our passengers", he said. 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.
"Today, there is some controlled insecurity in the Gulf of Aden and we have been able to escort over 4,000 oil tankers and cargo ships to the safe regions without any disruption in our plans for oil and non-oil exports and imports", Naval Commander Rear Admiral Sayyari said. "ICAO. should heavily get involved, put their weight behind this to declare this an illegal act".
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