{"id":18536,"date":"2021-01-05T19:51:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T14:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=18536"},"modified":"2021-01-05T19:51:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T14:51:55","slug":"us-welcomes-saudi-qatari-deal-to-reopen-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/18536","title":{"rendered":"US welcomes Saudi-Qatari deal to reopen borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON,<\/p>\n<p>The US on Monday welcomed a much-sought rapprochement between Qatar and Saudi Arabia as they reopened their airspace and borders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A resolution of the wider three-year dispute between the Quartet and Qatar is in the interest of all [Gulf Cooperation Council] GCC members as well as the interest of the United States,&#8221; said a State Department spokesperson in a statement to News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry announced that Doha and Riyadh had agreed to reopen their airspace and borders starting tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The development marks a breakthrough in efforts to end a diplomatic crisis that has seen Qatar facing a blockade by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt since June 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Accusing Qatar of supporting terrorism and meddling in their internal affairs, the four countries cut ties with Doha and imposed a land, sea and air blockade on the country.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar, with the support of Turkey, consistently denied the charges and voiced readiness for dialogue to end the impasse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, The US on Monday welcomed a much-sought rapprochement between Qatar and Saudi Arabia as they reopened their airspace and borders. &#8220;A resolution of the wider three-year dispute between the Quartet and Qatar is in the interest of all [Gulf Cooperation Council] GCC members as well as the interest of the United States,&#8221; said a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460,31,1473],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-saudi-arab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18537,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18536\/revisions\/18537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}