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Brotherhood leaders leave Qatar for Libya: report
GCC panel preparing plan to be implemented by Doha before envoys are reinstated
Gulf News Report
Published: 16:05 April 25, 2014
Dubai: Dozens of Muslim Brotherhood leaders reportedly deported by Qatar have arrived in Libya, a London-based daily said.
The leaders have landed at Maeetiqiya international airport in the Libyan capital over three days, Libyan political, military and security sources told Al Arab newspaper.
They were ferried away to unidentified places in cars waiting at the airport located around 11km west of Tripoli and dominated by an armed Islamist group, the sources added.
According to the daily, Qatar has been looking for a country that would host the senior leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood following intense pressure by fellow Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries — Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE — to change its policy of supporting the movement.
The three countries on March 5 pulled out their ambassadors from Doha to protest against what was seen as Qatar’s meddling in their domestic affairs and its backing of the Islamist movement rejected by some GCC countries as an illegal organisation.
The three countries insisted their ambassadors would not be reinstated until Qatar complied fully with an agreement it signed on April 17 in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
Although the details of the accord have not been made public, reports citing “well-informed sources” said that the three countries wanted Qatar’s alignment with GCC common policies and the deportation of the Muslim Brotherhood leaders from Qatar who should be denied access to all Qatari or Qatar-supported media.
Other conditions included deporting around Qatar-based 15 Gulf nationals whose activities have been considered suspicious.
The agreement was signed in Riyadh following an intense mediation by the Emir of Kuwait that has been richly acknowledged. Kuwait and Oman, the other two GCC members, did not recall their ambassadors from Doha.
In separate statements, the foreign ministers of Oman and Qatar have said that the divergences between Qatar and the three other GCC countries that constituted the most serious political crisis within the alliance since it was founded in 1981 were over.
Khalid Al Atiyyah, the Qatari minister, said last week that the “divergences in opinions are over and it is up to the countries to decide on sending their ambassadors back to Doha.”
However, Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmad Al Khalifa, Bahrain’s foreign minister, on Wednesday said that the reinstatement of the ambassadors was linked to Qatar’s commitment to the implementation of the Riyadh agreement.
“The GCC foreign ministers meeting in Riyadh on April 17 was the start of a process for the direct application of the agreement, so results will not be immediate,” he said.
“We have drawn up reconciliation measures and an action plan that is being fine-tuned right now in Riyadh. The timeline will be linked to the progress of the process,” he told reporters on the sidelines of a GCC security conference in Bahrain.
A GCC Executive Committee is holding meetings in the Saudi capital to prepare the points that will help with the implementation of the Riyadh agreement, Al Arab said.
Quoting diplomatic sources, the daily said that the points would be reviewed by the GCC foreign ministers before they are implemented by Qatar.
The committee would then monitor the application process with a three-month deadline, it added.
Some of the points include deportation of Muslim Brotherhood leading figures to their home countries and reviewing the policies of the Doha-based pan-Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera.
The three countries also want Qatar not to allow religious preachers to use mosques or media to attack other GCC countries and to cancel all forums by organisations seen by the GCC as having links with terrorism.
They also insist that Qatar must shut down research centres directed by Saudi nationals who had been given the Qatari citizenship.
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Quote 2 :
GCC statement on ‘new cooperation mechanism’
Member states agree to implement Riyadh Document
WAM
Published: 16:07 April 18, 2014
Riyadh: Foreign ministers of the GCC countries held a meeting on Thursday evening at the Riyadh Airbase in Saudi Arabia.
UAE Foreign Minister Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan attended the meeting along with his GCC counterparts.
A statement was released just before midnight after the meeting concluded.
Stemming from the strong and historic bonds and common destiny among the GCC countries and their keenness to further their progress, the foreign ministers of the GCC countries on Thursday, took an overall review of the procedures in place pertaining to foreign and security policies. It was agreed to adopt mechanisms to guarantee a collective framework and to ensure that policies of any of the GCC countries would not affect interests, security and stability of the countries or undermine their sovereignty, the statement said.
In this regard, Their Highnesses and Excellencies have confirmed their respective countries’ agreement on the implementation mechanism of the Riyadh Document, which is based on the principles of the GCC statute, it said.
The GCC foreign ministers hailed this historic achievement which as a result of 33 years of hard work to realise the interests of the peoples in the member states, to pave the way for wider horizons of security and stability, and to boost member states’ preparations for the challenges ahead, under a strong and coherent entity, the statement said.
They also praised the role played by the State of Kuwait, under the leadership of Emir Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, to reach the aspired outcome.
Their Highnesses and Excellencies agreed the importance of proper fulfilment of the commitments undertaken, in order to safeguard the achievements and to move forward — by the grace of Allah — into a new phase of cohesion to surpass difficulties and challenges and to meet aspirations of the peoples of the member states.
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Quote 3 :
Rift within GCC ‘coming to an end’
Reports indicate Qatar will expel Gulf citizens active with the Muslim Brotherhood and tone down Al Jazeera coverage
Gulf News Report
Published: 15:28 April 17, 2014
Dubai: Gulf foreign ministers were to hold on Thursday an extraordinary meeting in Riyadh in a bid to defuse tensions between Qatar and three other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, an unnamed Gulf official said.
Heavyweight Saudi Arabia, as well as the UAE and Bahrain recalled their ambassadors from Qatar last month, accusing it of meddling in their internal affairs and supporting the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Gulf official said that the impromptu meeting aims to settle differences, but pointed out that there was no clear idea as yet about how the foreign ministers will go about doing it.
Reports from Bahrain have indicated that an accord was eventually reached and that the foreign ministers of the GCC would hold an extraordinary session on Thursday for the announcement.
According to a report published in Bahraini daily Al Ayam on Thursday and citing reports in the region, the new accord stipulates that Qatar deport around 15 Gulf nationals who are allegedly active members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including five UAE and two Saudi nationals, living in Doha.
Qatar-based pan-Arab television station Al Jazeera would be, under the reported deal, less aggressive in its coverage of events in some GCC countries and Egypt and avoid referring to the Egyptian military’s ouster last year of the Muslim Brotherhood-led government of Mohammad Mursi as a “military coup.”
Egyptian opposition figures living in Qatar would not be allowed to use Qatari media or Qatari-funded media, the reports said.
Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs told London-based Saudi daily Al Hayat in an interview published on Thursday that the rift between the GCC had ended and had become “a thing of the past”.
He told the paper that the dispute was solved internally, within the GCC, “without allowing anyone to interfere”. The rift, he said, was a “storm that has passed”.
On Tuesday, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al Faisal told reporters that GCC countries “are free in their policies, provided they do not harm interests of other members” of the regional grouping.
“As long as these countries adhere to this principle, there will be no problems among GCC states.”
Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states are hostile to the Brotherhood, fearing its brand of grassroots activism could undermine their authority.
Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE on March 5 pulled out their ambassadors from Qatar after complaining that Doha had failed to comply with a non-interference agreement signed last year under the auspices of Kuwait.
Efforts have been deployed by fellow GCC member Kuwait to reconcile the two sides and put an end to the worst political rift to hit the six-member alliance since it was established in 1981 in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi.
Saudi Arabia has persistently insisted there could be no reconciliation until Qatar changed its attitude and honoured the agreement that stipulated non-interference in the domestic affairs of fellow GCC members and not extending support to the Muslim Brotherhood, considered an illegal movement in many GCC countries.
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Quote 1 :
Brotherhood leaders leave Qatar for Libya: report
GCC panel preparing plan to be implemented by Doha before envoys are reinstated
Gulf News Report
Published: 16:05 April 25, 2014
Dubai: Dozens of Muslim Brotherhood leaders reportedly deported by Qatar have arrived in Libya, a London-based daily said.
The leaders have landed at Maeetiqiya international airport in the Libyan capital over three days, Libyan political, military and security sources told Al Arab newspaper.
They were ferried away to unidentified places in cars waiting at the airport located around 11km west of Tripoli and dominated by an armed Islamist group, the sources added.
According to the daily, Qatar has been looking for a country that would host the senior leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood following intense pressure by fellow Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries — Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE — to change its policy of supporting the movement.
The three countries on March 5 pulled out their ambassadors from Doha to protest against what was seen as Qatar’s meddling in their domestic affairs and its backing of the Islamist movement rejected by some GCC countries as an illegal organisation.
The three countries insisted their ambassadors would not be reinstated until Qatar complied fully with an agreement it signed on April 17 in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
Although the details of the accord have not been made public, reports citing “well-informed sources” said that the three countries wanted Qatar’s alignment with GCC common policies and the deportation of the Muslim Brotherhood leaders from Qatar who should be denied access to all Qatari or Qatar-supported media.
Other conditions included deporting around Qatar-based 15 Gulf nationals whose activities have been considered suspicious.
The agreement was signed in Riyadh following an intense mediation by the Emir of Kuwait that has been richly acknowledged. Kuwait and Oman, the other two GCC members, did not recall their ambassadors from Doha.
In separate statements, the foreign ministers of Oman and Qatar have said that the divergences between Qatar and the three other GCC countries that constituted the most serious political crisis within the alliance since it was founded in 1981 were over.
Khalid Al Atiyyah, the Qatari minister, said last week that the “divergences in opinions are over and it is up to the countries to decide on sending their ambassadors back to Doha.”
However, Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmad Al Khalifa, Bahrain’s foreign minister, on Wednesday said that the reinstatement of the ambassadors was linked to Qatar’s commitment to the implementation of the Riyadh agreement.
“The GCC foreign ministers meeting in Riyadh on April 17 was the start of a process for the direct application of the agreement, so results will not be immediate,” he said.
“We have drawn up reconciliation measures and an action plan that is being fine-tuned right now in Riyadh. The timeline will be linked to the progress of the process,” he told reporters on the sidelines of a GCC security conference in Bahrain.
A GCC Executive Committee is holding meetings in the Saudi capital to prepare the points that will help with the implementation of the Riyadh agreement, Al Arab said.
Quoting diplomatic sources, the daily said that the points would be reviewed by the GCC foreign ministers before they are implemented by Qatar.
The committee would then monitor the application process with a three-month deadline, it added.
Some of the points include deportation of Muslim Brotherhood leading figures to their home countries and reviewing the policies of the Doha-based pan-Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera.
The three countries also want Qatar not to allow religious preachers to use mosques or media to attack other GCC countries and to cancel all forums by organisations seen by the GCC as having links with terrorism.
They also insist that Qatar must shut down research centres directed by Saudi nationals who had been given the Qatari citizenship.
...
Quote 2 :
GCC statement on ‘new cooperation mechanism’
Member states agree to implement Riyadh Document
WAM
Published: 16:07 April 18, 2014
Riyadh: Foreign ministers of the GCC countries held a meeting on Thursday evening at the Riyadh Airbase in Saudi Arabia.
UAE Foreign Minister Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan attended the meeting along with his GCC counterparts.
A statement was released just before midnight after the meeting concluded.
Stemming from the strong and historic bonds and common destiny among the GCC countries and their keenness to further their progress, the foreign ministers of the GCC countries on Thursday, took an overall review of the procedures in place pertaining to foreign and security policies. It was agreed to adopt mechanisms to guarantee a collective framework and to ensure that policies of any of the GCC countries would not affect interests, security and stability of the countries or undermine their sovereignty, the statement said.
In this regard, Their Highnesses and Excellencies have confirmed their respective countries’ agreement on the implementation mechanism of the Riyadh Document, which is based on the principles of the GCC statute, it said.
The GCC foreign ministers hailed this historic achievement which as a result of 33 years of hard work to realise the interests of the peoples in the member states, to pave the way for wider horizons of security and stability, and to boost member states’ preparations for the challenges ahead, under a strong and coherent entity, the statement said.
They also praised the role played by the State of Kuwait, under the leadership of Emir Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, to reach the aspired outcome.
Their Highnesses and Excellencies agreed the importance of proper fulfilment of the commitments undertaken, in order to safeguard the achievements and to move forward — by the grace of Allah — into a new phase of cohesion to surpass difficulties and challenges and to meet aspirations of the peoples of the member states.
...
Quote 3 :
Rift within GCC ‘coming to an end’
Reports indicate Qatar will expel Gulf citizens active with the Muslim Brotherhood and tone down Al Jazeera coverage
Gulf News Report
Published: 15:28 April 17, 2014
Dubai: Gulf foreign ministers were to hold on Thursday an extraordinary meeting in Riyadh in a bid to defuse tensions between Qatar and three other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, an unnamed Gulf official said.
Heavyweight Saudi Arabia, as well as the UAE and Bahrain recalled their ambassadors from Qatar last month, accusing it of meddling in their internal affairs and supporting the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Gulf official said that the impromptu meeting aims to settle differences, but pointed out that there was no clear idea as yet about how the foreign ministers will go about doing it.
Reports from Bahrain have indicated that an accord was eventually reached and that the foreign ministers of the GCC would hold an extraordinary session on Thursday for the announcement.
According to a report published in Bahraini daily Al Ayam on Thursday and citing reports in the region, the new accord stipulates that Qatar deport around 15 Gulf nationals who are allegedly active members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including five UAE and two Saudi nationals, living in Doha.
Qatar-based pan-Arab television station Al Jazeera would be, under the reported deal, less aggressive in its coverage of events in some GCC countries and Egypt and avoid referring to the Egyptian military’s ouster last year of the Muslim Brotherhood-led government of Mohammad Mursi as a “military coup.”
Egyptian opposition figures living in Qatar would not be allowed to use Qatari media or Qatari-funded media, the reports said.
Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs told London-based Saudi daily Al Hayat in an interview published on Thursday that the rift between the GCC had ended and had become “a thing of the past”.
He told the paper that the dispute was solved internally, within the GCC, “without allowing anyone to interfere”. The rift, he said, was a “storm that has passed”.
On Tuesday, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al Faisal told reporters that GCC countries “are free in their policies, provided they do not harm interests of other members” of the regional grouping.
“As long as these countries adhere to this principle, there will be no problems among GCC states.”
Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states are hostile to the Brotherhood, fearing its brand of grassroots activism could undermine their authority.
Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE on March 5 pulled out their ambassadors from Qatar after complaining that Doha had failed to comply with a non-interference agreement signed last year under the auspices of Kuwait.
Efforts have been deployed by fellow GCC member Kuwait to reconcile the two sides and put an end to the worst political rift to hit the six-member alliance since it was established in 1981 in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi.
Saudi Arabia has persistently insisted there could be no reconciliation until Qatar changed its attitude and honoured the agreement that stipulated non-interference in the domestic affairs of fellow GCC members and not extending support to the Muslim Brotherhood, considered an illegal movement in many GCC countries.
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