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Qatar pulls all its troops from Djibouti-Eritrea border

Qatar withdraws troops from Djibouti-Eritrea border mission
Erdogan decries Qatar isolation as a 'death penalty'
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23 June, 2017

Amid regional tensions between Gulf states, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci will visit Qatar, a media report said on Wednesday.

Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker has called on ICAO to step in to the diplomatic rift between Qatar and the Gulf states that have closed their airspace to Qatar Airways.

The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), a United Nations agency that regulates international air travel under the Chicago Convention, said it would host talks of ministers and senior officials from Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt at its Montreal headquarters on Thursday to seek a " consensus-based solution" that addressed "current regional concerns".

The Saudi monarch asked Sharif to take a clear position on Qatar during their meeting in Jeddah on Monday, The Express Tribune reported, citing diplomatic sources. However, Pakistan said that they will not take any side in this crisis.

The watchdog specified that on May 25, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates blocked Qatari media outlets, including Al Jazeera, while Egypt blocked 62 websites favorable toward the Muslim Brotherhood (entity banned in Russia).

He said Kuwait is now the main mediator in solving the Qatar crisis.

Qatar now remains the subject of a diplomatic rift in which nine countries - Mauritius, Mauritania, the Maldives, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and Libya's eastern-based government - have severed ties. Qatar is moving in the right direction when it comes to curtailing its funding of terrorism, Mattis added.

Zeid Raad al-Hussein, the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that moves by Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt to punish Qatar were a serious concern and he was alarmed by its possible consequences.

The crisis erupted late last month over fears that Qatar was trying to improve its ties with Iran, which Saudi Arabia and its allies wanted to be isolated.


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