{"id":1273,"date":"2017-10-21T15:49:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T15:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/tillerson-returns-to-saudi-arabia-as-qatar-row-simmers-4\/"},"modified":"2017-10-21T15:49:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T15:49:23","slug":"tillerson-returns-to-saudi-arabia-as-qatar-row-simmers-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/tillerson-returns-to-saudi-arabia-as-qatar-row-simmers-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Tillerson returns to Saudi Arabia as Qatar row simmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madaresharghi..com\">madaresharghi<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"lide\">US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Saudi Arabia Saturday, his second visit to the region in recent months as he seeks a breakthrough in a diplomatic crisis gripping the Persian Gulf.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"85\">\n<p>\n\tSaudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt cut ties with Qatar in June, alleging it was funding extremists and is too close to Iran. Doha denies the charge.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTillerson made an unsuccessful attempt to resolve the dispute during a trip to the region in July, AFP reported.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tUS President Donald Trump, after initially appearing to support the effort to isolate Qatar, has called for mediation and recently predicted a rapid end to the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBut before his arrival at Riyadh\u2019s King Salman air base, Tillerson indicated there had been little progress.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe blamed the four countries lined up against the emirate for a lack of progress and casting doubts on US efforts to mediate the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI do not have a lot of expectations for it being resolved anytime soon,\u201d Tillerson said in an interview with financial news agency Bloomberg. He declined to say which country bears the most responsibility for the lack of progress.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThere seems to be a real unwillingness on the part of some of the parties to want to engage,\u201d Tillerson said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s up to the leadership of the quartet when they want to engage with Qatar because Qatar has been very clear \u2013 they\u2019re ready to engage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe four countries cut diplomatic and trade links with Qatar on June 5, suspending air and shipping routes with the world\u2019s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas, which is home to the region\u2019s biggest US military base.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThey have presented a list of conditions for the lifting of sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAside from the Persian Gulf dispute, Iran, the conflict in Yemen and counter-terrorism also are on the agenda in the Persian Gulf, the State Department said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhile in Riyadh, Tillerson will also take part in the first meeting of a Saudi-Iraqi coordination council, a sign of warming relations between the kingdom and Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHis trip will also take him to India and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>madaresharghi US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Saudi Arabia Saturday, his second visit to the region in recent months as he seeks a breakthrough in a diplomatic crisis gripping the Persian Gulf. 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