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Saudi Arabia said on Saturday that both Qatar and Egypt had accepted an initiative of Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdel-Aziz for cementing relations and healing rifts between them.
"Saudi Arabia blesses ongoing efforts to bolster ties between Egypt and Qatar," the official Saudi news agency "ed the Saudi royal court as saying in a statement.
It said these efforts included a visit to Cairo on Saturday by a special envoy of the Emir of Qatar.
Earlier on Saturday, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi met in Cairo with an envoy of the Emir of Qatar for the first time since he came to power in Egypt in June of last year.
The Saudi royal court said in its statement that the Saudi monarch had proposed the initiative for healing rifts between Egypt and Qatar with the aim of reuniting the two states.
It added, according to the Saudi news agency, that Saudi Arabia had backed starting a new chapter in relations between Egypt and Qatar, one marked by mutual cooperation in ways that serve the best interests of the Arab and Islamic nations.
Relations between Cairo and Doha deteriorated markedly since July of last year, when Mohamed Morsi – Egypt's first elected president – was ousted by the army following mass opposition protests.
Egypt had accused Doha of interfering in its affairs by supporting the Muslim Brotherhood – the group from which Morsi hails – and by hosting a number of wanted Brotherhood figures following Morsi's ouster.
In a September interview with CNN held on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad described Morsi's ouster as a "military coup."
Cairo has been especially irked by Qatar's view of political developments in Egypt, and what it describes as biased news coverage by Qatar's Al-Jazeera Mubasher Misr channel, which is devoted to covering Egypt news.
A recent inter-Gulf initiative, however, has sought to break the ice between Cairo and Doha.
Ahmed al-Masri
www.aa.com.tr/en - Doha
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