Those tensions spilled into the public arena less than 48 hours after the Qatari emir took part in the Riyadh summit attended by Trump which was meant to showcase United States support for solidarity of Sunni Muslim nations.
The call came a day after Trump appeared to back Saudi Arabia strong-arming the emirate, which is home to 10,000 USA troops.
It is not clear that Riyadh will be able to persuade more countries to cut links with Doha. Trump has called key players in the region since they severed ties with Qatar on Monday.
In addition, Saudi Arabia has long accused Qatar of providing active support to Shiite minorities in the territories of Riyadh and Bahrain, and this casts unsafe shadows over Yemen, where the Saudis are bogged down in a war against Houthi rebels (Shiites), a conflict that they have not been able to win so far, even with USA aid.
The actions taken by Saudi Arabia and its allies amounted to "a clear breach of the global law and won't result in a positive impact on the region but will have a negative one", he said, also hitting out at the terrorism blacklist. In the case of the region, the three prominent entities that the US has so labeled are Hezbollah, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
As Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tries to heal a deep rift among Arab partners, President Trump seems to be upping the ante.
France is calling on Qatar to answer its Gulf neighbors' questions in order to find a solution to the current diplomatic crisis.
A picture on Facebook showed a supermarket displaying food from Turkey including milk, eggs and chicken.
Tillerson demanded that Qatar, as well as the other countries, take steps to curtail support for terrorism. He also pointedly asked Saudi Arabia and others to ease their blockade on Qatar. The four countries added that the list reveals Qatar's "support to different terrorist organisations". In a tweetstorm, Trump said Mideast leaders he'd met with last month had all "pointed to Qatar" as the source of terrorist financing, waxing optimistically that the isolation of the kingdom might be "the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism".
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Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker, said: "Qatar Airways has worked tirelessly to ensure that all passengers are brought home safely to Doha within 24 hours of the flight cancellations".
"They will not have a positive impact on the region but a negative one", the minister said during a visit to Germany.
The Arab states accuse Qatar, a gas-rich emirate at the Saudi border, of supporting extremism.
The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and the UAE are demanding from Qatar to expel members of Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and terror groups "with al-Qaida DNA". For the time being it can only be noted how the well-known Qatar TV channel Al Jazeera has modified the language about Syria, speaking for the first time of a "government army" or "Syrian army" when referring to President Bashar al-Assad's troops, hitherto called "troops of the regime".
"We don't see that he's pointing fingers at Qatar", Al Thani said. "There are other countries in the region that grapple with the same issues".
Qatar is the world's largest exporter of liquefied natural gas.
Armed Qatari gunboats patrolled the corniche of the capital Doha on Friday.
A top Emirati diplomat has called U.S. President Donald Trump's tweets on Qatar "very courageous and extraordinary". There may be reciprocal restrictions imposed by Qatar against the other states. The riyal currency has tumbled and the cost of insuring Qatari debt against default has risen.
Kuwait has taken on the mediator role in the crisis, and French President Emmanuel Macron has also reached out to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Iran in a bid to kick off talks.
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