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UAE’s Gargash critcises Qatar, cites ‘weak’ excuses

UAE’s Gargash critcises Qatar, cites ‘weak’ excuses
UAE minister of state for foreign affairs Anwar Gargash

Mubasher: The UAE’s minister of state for foreign affairs on Thursday criticised Qatar’s failure to provide evidence that it does not support terrorism or terrorist groups and related activities.

Anwar Gargash said that Qatar’s excuses have so far been “weak”, according to The National.

In June, a political dispute emerged between Qatar and neighbouring GCC members, led by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, and Egypt. The four countries cut diplomatic and transport ties with Qatar, citing that the country was supporting terrorism.

“Confusion in rhetoric and politics is ongoing. Sometimes it’s the general public’s jealousy of Qatar, sometimes it’s maintaining Qatar’s sovereignty, and other times it’s Qatar’s support of democracy, sometimes it’s its support for the Arab Spring, and other times it’s because of the ‘UAE instigator’,” the newspaper cited the top official as saying.

The minister further added that Qatar’s media have been “inconsistent” in their reporting, The National said, noting that according to Gargash, the only way to resolve the dispute would be for Qatar to change its “policies of supporting extremism, terrorism, and of interfering in the domestic affairs of others”.

“We have become accustomed to the duality of Qatar’s political rhetoric, for it was the one that hosted the base, which bombed Iraq, and the channel that incited against it. It is the one that supported Hamas and warmed up to Israel, and it is the one that conspired against King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia,” the minister added in tweets posted late Wednesday.

Gargash further noted that before 1995, Qatar was one with other GCC members and other Arab countries, however, its move in 2017 was “a clear line of severance.”

“The crisis seems to be continuing and the policies have hurt Qatar and the region," the minister concluded.