{"id":402385,"date":"2021-01-05T10:09:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T07:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=402385"},"modified":"2021-01-05T10:09:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T07:09:31","slug":"us-welcomes-saudi-qatari-deal-to-reopen-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/us-welcomes-saudi-qatari-deal-to-reopen-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"US welcomes Saudi-Qatari deal to reopen borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington<strong> (SONNA)<\/strong>The US on Monday welcomed a much-sought rapprochement between Qatar and Saudi Arabia as they reopened their airspace and borders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A resolution of the wider three-year dispute between the Quartet and Qatar is in the interest of all [Gulf Cooperation Council] GCC members as well as the interest of the United States,&#8221; said a State Department spokesperson in a statement to Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry announced that Doha and Riyadh had agreed to reopen their airspace and borders starting tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The development marks a breakthrough in efforts to end a diplomatic crisis that has seen Qatar facing a blockade by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt since June 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Accusing Qatar of supporting terrorism and meddling in their internal affairs, the four countries cut ties with Doha and imposed a land, sea and air blockade on the country.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar, with the support of Turkey, consistently denied the charges and voiced readiness for dialogue to end the impasse.<\/p>\n<p>@<strong>AA<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington (SONNA)The US on Monday welcomed a much-sought rapprochement between Qatar and Saudi Arabia as they reopened their airspace and borders. &#8220;A resolution of the wider three-year dispute between the Quartet and Qatar is in the interest of all [Gulf Cooperation Council] GCC members as well as the interest of the United States,&#8221; said a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402387,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402385\/revisions\/402387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}