Saudi, allies threaten more measures against Qatar

"But I'm not going to pretend to you now that it is necessarily overnight or this is going to be done in the next couple of days", he said.

Qatar was ready to "cooperate and review all claims that do not contradict the sovereignty of the State of Qatar", it added.

Washington is anxious that the ongoing standoff could damage its operations to strike terrorists in the Middle East as it has a huge military base in Qatar.

Johnson, who also held talks in Saudi Arabia on Friday, said it was "highly unlikely" that the current standoff would descend into military conflict.

World Food Programme, UNICEF, World Health Organisation, UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) will be the main beneficiaries of the funds, according to the deals signed on Saturday in Qatar's capital Doha.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres dispatched Feltman to the Gulf after meeting with Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani last week.

Saudi, allies threaten more measures against Qatar

Saudi Arabia and its allies cut ties with Qatar on June 5 and imposed land, sea, air blockade on the country, accusing it of funding "terrorism" - an allegation Doha denies.

British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday urged Arab states to end their Qatar boycott, downplaying the odds of a military escalation in the worst crisis to grip the Gulf in years. They later issued a 10-day ultimatum to a 13-point list of demands.

The chief of one of the world's busiest water corridors, the Suez Canal, says Egyptian authorities can't ban Qatari ships from crossing the vital waterway. However, worldwide treaties prevent them from barring Qatari ships from using the canal as a passage.

Egypt along with Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have accused Qatar of harboring Islamic extremism.

Four Arab countries isolating Qatar vowed Friday to take additional steps against the energy rich Gulf state after it refused to accept their demands over allegations that it supports extremist ideology. They did not specify what those steps could include, though officials have previously suggested they could intensify efforts to isolate Qatar economically. Kuwait, which has not joined the Saudi-led bloc in cutting diplomatic ties with Doha and imposing a blockade early last month, has been playing the role of mediator in the crisis.