Saudi's Salman undermines Qatar's crises

(MENAFN) The Saudi royal court adviser Saud Al-Qahtani was cited by Al-Arabiya as saying on Tuesday that the 32-year-old crown prince has addressed the Qatar crisis during his meeting with reporters in Egypt and stressed that he did not occupy himself with it.

"I do not occupy myself with it. The one handling the matter has a post less than a minister's. Qatar's entire population is less than the number of residents in a street in Egypt. Any minister (in Saudi Arabia) can resolve that crisis," Qahtani quoted the Crown Prince as saying.

"A dear colleague at the ministry of foreign affairs whose ranking is Grade 12 is in charge of the Qatari matter, in addition to the tasks assigned to him," Qahtani said on Twitter.

Commenting on the comparison made by Bin Salman between the US situation with Cuba and the Saudi-led Quarter against Qatar, Qahtani stated that "I disagree with his Highness in one thing here. The US was deprived of the Cuban cigar but we have not been deprived of anything. Qatar has been deprived of everything, such as pastures, and it ended up transforming from a "peninsula" into an isolated "island"."

it's worth mentioning that in early June, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain severed diplomatic and trade ties with Qatar, alleging that Doha supports terrorism and destabilizes the Middle East, while Qatar, for its part, slammed the measures as unjustified, stressing that they are based on false claims and assumptions. It also denied the accusations, describing attempts to diplomatically isolate it as a violation of international law and its national sovereignty.

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