Trump's phone call Wednesday made for a stark contrast to a series of tweets he sent Tuesday, in which he appeared to throw his weight behind the effort by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, along with Yemen, the Maldives and Libya, to ostracize Qatar.
".Qatar is not ready to surrender and will not compromise on the independence of its foreign policy", it added.
But the row over Qatar's alleged support for Islamist groups has disrupted many aspects of life.
Tillerson said that after speaking with Gulf leaders it is clear "that the elements of a solution are available" and that the USA expects "that these countries will immediately take steps to de-escalate the situation and put forth a good faith effort to resolve their grievances they have with each other".
Tillerson said the US will support Kuwait-led efforts to mediate an end to the diplomatic row.
The United States urged Saudi Arabia and its regional allies on Friday to ease their blockade imposed on Qatar, saying it was harming the regional struggle against extremism.
Qatar is home to the al-Udeid military base, the largest U.S. military base in the Middle East, which houses U.S. Central Command.
A Turkish delegation would go to Qatar in the coming days to assess the situation at the base, where around 90 Turkish soldiers are now based, it said.
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"The emir is wise not to speak", said Faraj, a Qatari engineer working for a telecommunications company.
Although applauding a Kuwaiti effort to mediate the crisis, Gargash said Emirati and Saudi officials planned to concede nothing to Qatar, an worldwide air travel hub now cut off from some of the skies around it and blocked from receiving the trucks full of food it relies on to feed its citizens.
"I have never seen Qatari citizens stocking up on frozen chicken and long-life milks", said Anup Manoj, an Indian man who works as a cleaner in Doha's City Center Mall, where many shops no longer stock milk packaged by Saudi Arabia's Almarai Co, the most affordable kind of milk in Qatar.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, who has said Gulf states could resolve the dispute among themselves without outside help, travelled to Muscat on Thursday to meet his Omani counterpart.
The Abu Dhabi Petroleum Ports Authority also reimposed a ban on oil tankers linked to Qatar calling at ports in the UAE, reversing a decision to ease restrictions and potentially creating a logjam of crude cargoes. A declaration of war.
Riyadh, Cairo and their allies accuse Qatar, the world's richest country per capita, of supporting militant Islamist movements across the region.
Qatar said last month its state news agency had been hacked and false statements attributed to its ruler posted, helping ignite this week's rift with other Arab states.
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