Qatar calls on Arab quartet to resolve ongoing diplomatic crisis

The Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar Dr Ahmed bin Hassan Al Hammadi while delivering a speech at the three-day Arab Forum for Sustainable Development 2018 urged Arab quartet to resolve the ongoing diplomatic crisis in the region.

The Qatari official said that stability, civil peace, and social security are the main pillars that provide the environment for development and progress in its tracks, and without these pillars, it will be impossible to achieve and establish the goals of development.

“Therefore, the State of Qatar urgently calls for constructive dialogue among the various social and political forces to resolve the crises in the region and the wars taking place in order to find the appropriate ground for progress in achieving development, which is a decisive factor in achieving stability and civil peace,” he added.

Dr Al Hammadi also stressed on the issues of sustainable development in all countries of the region have a high priority and special attention by the governments and communities of the Arab world, as they represent a fundamental challenge to the future of the region and its progress and development.

He further emphasized that without achieving the desired progress in sustainable development goals and objectives, it will be impossible to achieve a better life for Arab societies, which have been plagued by major social tensions, some of which reached the point of armed conflict, and the dismantling of state institutions and structures.

He also stated that the Qatar has fulfilled all its commitments of the 17th goal of the sustainable development goals, and has voluntarily established massive partnerships with a large number of least developed countries through specific programs in the fields of education, health, employment and humanitarian assistance, whereas this assistance met the needs of 17 million children in the fields of education and health.

The Qatari official, in the end, said that Qatar has achieved a great progress in development fields in the last two decades, which has made it move from middle performing countries on the human development index to advanced states.

The statement from Doha comes after the economic and financial impact on Qatar put by Arab quartet’s blockade is fading slowly. In the month of June last year, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt and several other nations cut ties with Qatar and imposed stringent economic sanctions on it over supporting extremism.

On the other side, Qatar denied all their allegations saying that they never supported Islamist militants and Shi'ite Iran. Later, Saudi and its allies issued a 13-point list of demands to end the rift on June 22 and gave Qatar 10 days to comply. However, earlier Qatar rejected to fulfill the demands.