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News ID: 45507
Publish Date : 21 October 2017 - 21:26

Tillerson in Riyadh at Start of Persian Gulf, South Asia Tour




RIYADH (Dispatches) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Riyadh on Saturday at the start of a six-day trip which will also take him to Qatar, a fellow Persian Gulf Arab state which is in a diplomatic dispute with Saudi Arabia.
Tillerson flew into King Salman Air Base and will later meet with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir.
Back in June, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, and the UAE imposed a trade and diplomatic embargo on Qatar, accusing Doha of supporting terrorism, an allegation strongly denied by Doha.
They presented Qatar with a list of demands, among them downgrading ties with Iran, and gave it an ultimatum to comply with them or face consequences. Doha, however, refused to meet the demands and said that they were meant to force the country to surrender its sovereignty.