On Monday, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told Congress that funding of any kind of terrorist group "is inimical to all of our interest", also stating that Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani has inherited a hard, very tough situation, and "he's trying to turn the society in the right direction". "Saudi King Salman posed the question to Mr Sharif, who had visited the Gulf Kingdom for finding a diplomatic solution to the Qatar crisis, The Express Tribune reported citing diplomatic sources".
Qatar was the country that brokered a peace agreement signed in 2010 between Djibouti and Eritrea in an attempt to resolve the decades-old border conflict and since then the Arab country has deployed units there to maintain stability.
Confrontation between Qatar and Saudi Arabia is creating unease among Syrian rebels who expect the crisis between two of their biggest state backers to deepen divisions in the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad. "I think that as the elder statesman of the Gulf, the king of Saudi Arabia should solve this affair and show leadership", said Erdogan.
Mr Sharif, accompanied by Pakistan army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa and other senior officials, travelled to Jeddah on Monday to discuss the emerging situation in the Gulf world.
The curbs placed on gas-rich Qatar have ranged from bans on flag-carrier Qatar Airways using airspace of the countries involved to Saudi Arabia suspending subscription sales and renewals to a Qatar-linked sports broadcaster. His mediation visit to Saudi did not achieve any immediate breakthrough.
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Tim Slater, the special agent in charge of the Washington FBI office, also said during a news conference Wednesday that James T. The FBI added that they did not believe the pictures of the baseball field represented "surveillance." .
Qatar, meanwhile, has indicated that it was willing to address concerns of the countries that ended diplomatic relations with it.
Earlier it was reported that Cavusoglu will visit Qatar on June 14.
Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt cut diplomatic and transport ties with Qatar a week ago, accusing it of fomenting regional unrest, supporting terrorism and getting too close to Iran, all of which Doha denies.
The SPA, while announcing the severing of relations with Qatar, had said it had been done for "protection of national security from the dangers of terrorism and extremism".
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