"I believe that all the countries know the urgency of solving this problem as soon as possible".
Differences between Qatar and neighboring Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, as well as Egypt, led to severing diplomatic ties including air links. Qatar has denied the allegations.
Thani said that Qatar was in contact with global aviation authorities and legal organizations as it tries to fight back against moves by Saudi Arabia and its allies to cut off its land, air, and sea access. But recent Gulf reports have charged the relationship goes beyond resource management, accusing Qatari officials of meeting with the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. New Delhi officially issued only a statement, and a parliament member reportedly sent an email to India's foreign minister, Sushma Swaraj, saying that a "prime minister's visits do not necessarily help in such matters".
Qatar's foreign minister is welcoming diplomatic efforts to calm the Gulf standoff over alleged Qatari support for Islamic extremists but insists that no one can dictate its foreign policy.
President Donald Trump meets with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia last month.
Al Jazeera, a comprehensive media outlet funded by the Qatari government with several worldwide satellite television channels, websites, and online video operations, is not exactly a beacon of free expression-it rarely reports negatively on Qatar or other Gulf countries, for example-but it has stood strong in its reporting on the Arab region and much of the world, covering topics that other outlets often ignore.
ISIS has its roots in al Qaeda in Iraq, which took part in the insurgency that followed the 2003 US-led invasion of the country. Saudi Arabia has also closed off Qatar's sole land border.
Sheikh Mohammed's courting of Europe - he has also visited Germany and Russian Federation in recent days - though did not go down well in parts of the Gulf.
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He said European countries, including France, were trying to ease tensions in support of Kuwait's mediation efforts, and he believed that the United States, which was also backing mediation, wanted restrictions on Doha to be lifted.
The Taliban opened its "political office" in Qatar in 2013.
Along with its Gulf peers - Dubai's Emirates Airlines and Abu Dhabi's Etihad - Qatar's national carrier has captured a sizable portion of transit travel, capitalising on the Gulf's central geographic location.
He accused the Gulf countries of violating a 1944 convention that the UAE and Bahrain have signed. Qatar Airways was forced to cancel direct flights to those countries, which serve as a significant source of passenger traffic for the airline.
Brandon Friedman, a research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University, told JNS.org that the current Gulf spat appears to center on Iran and the reported hostage deal; a previous Gulf crisis in 2014 was ignited by Qatar's support for the Muslim Brotherhood.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said Monday the two sides should resolve their differences through negotiations.
Mutlaq al-Qahtani, a senior counterterrorism adviser to Qatar's foreign minister, told Al Jazeera that Qatar hosted the Taliban "by request by the U.S. government" and as part of Qatar's "open-door policy, to facilitate talks, to mediate and to bring peace".
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