On Tuesday, the U.S. State Department said it was "mystified" that the Gulf countries had not released their grievances about Qatar.
"We just want to live out our days, to go to Saudi Arabia and take care of our camels and go back and take care of our family".
"Our desire is for unity within the Gulf and unity within the GCC and that we direct all of our efforts onto the war against terror", he said, referring to the Gulf Cooperation Council, a fractious regional alliance.
QNB has a good capital base, diversified funding sources and one of the best cost-to-income ratios so the standoff isn't impacting the bank's ability to get funding from the global market, the official said.
The comments mark an escalation in USA efforts to intercede in the conflict, which Secretary of State Rex Tillerson launched in earnest last week, at President Donald Trump's request.
The diplomatic crisis is a response to Qatar's financial support for Islamic extremist terrorists, according to Saudi Arabia - something the US has expressed concern about as well, but Qatar has denied.
"Qatar, unfortunately, has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level", Trump said on June 9, adding that Saudi Arabia and others "came together and spoke to me about confronting Qatar over its behavior".
He reaffirmed "Qatar's strategic stance that supports solving the crisis by civilised dialogue".
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The first US official said the dispute is driven more by economic rivalries, historical tensions and the personal dynamics of Gulf leaders than by the specific demands the Saudis and Emiratis are making on Qatar.
Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E. and Bahrain also closed their airspace to Qatari aircraft, and gave Qatari diplomats 48 hours to leave their respective countries.
President Donald Trump had at first welcomed the embargo against Qatar, tweeting "During my recent trip to the Middle East I stated that there can no longer be funding of Radical Ideology".
Last week, Mattis hosted Qatar's defence minister in Washington to finalise a $12-billion sale of 36 F-16 fighter jets.
The current situation requires concerted efforts by all states to condemn and combat terrorism on an worldwide level, they added.
Nauert (pictured below) made the comments over two weeks after Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf allies imposed an embargo on Qatar, citing its support for terrorism.
While we don't know the content of this list of demands, we do still have the huge list of demands given to Qatar by Saudi Arabia two weeks ago, which may well form the basis for this latest list.
"When was there a crisis when the State Department did not say we need to de-escalate?" he said. "We have to stop the funding of terrorism".
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