On Twitter early Monday, budget carrier flynas said it "welcomes the Saudi employees working on Qatar Airways airbus A320, and invites anyone with the desire to join flynas and work among its crew".
Such measures may involve delays and raise costs for Qatar; on Monday Fitch put Qatar's AA credit rating on Rating Watch Negative, saying a sustained crisis could hurt its credit outlook. "Most countries in Africa have ties with Qatar and not many of them have strong feelings against it".
Qatar's Foreign Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, told Al Jazeera earlier on Monday that Qatar and the U.S. were in touch with Kuwait, the main mediator between the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), "to calm the situation".
"We're extremely comfortable with our positions, our investments and liquidity in our systems", he said, adding that he sees no need for the government to step into the market and buy bonds.
But Al-Emadi said there is no such crisis. Qatar has denied these allegations.
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He said the energy sector and economy were essentially operating as normal and that there had not been a serious impact on supplies of food or other goods. "Whether it's Turkey, the Far East or Europe, Doha will ensure that it has enough partners to get things done". Prices of Qatar's global bonds have dropped sharply, but in answer to another question, Emadi said he saw no need for the government to step into the market and buy those bonds to support prices. The UAE has also ordered its banks to stop dealing with major Qatari lenders.
Senegal was first to recall its ambassador from Qatar's capital Doha. Turkish products can already be found in Qatari stores.
On Sunday, UAE President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan and Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Bin Saud both directed that lenience should be shown for Qatari-Emirati and Qatari-Saudi families on humanitarian grounds. Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, one of the world's largest, controls stakes in companies from Glencore Plc to Barclays Plc.
Oil giant Saudi Arabia accused Qatar of backing militant groups and broadcasting their ideology, in an apparent reference to Qatar's influential state-owned satellite channel al Jazeera. Having the Saudis, Bahrainis, Egyptians, and Emiratis squeeze the terrorist funding out of Qatar might, if the embargo is continued long enough, force the Qataris out of the Iranian orbit.
Normally, thousands of passengers and hundreds of trucks from Saudi Arabia pass through the crossing each day, bringing fruit and vegetables, as well as construction materials.
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