Mauritania announced on Sunday March 21 that it had resumed diplomatic relations with Qatar, which had been broken off for four years following a crisis between Doha and its neighbors.
"After intensive contacts during the last weeks, and with the blessing of the brother Sultanate of Oman, Mauritania and Qatar have decided to resume their diplomatic relations"
, indicates a statement from the Mauritanian Foreign Ministry published on Sunday by the Agency. Mauritanian information (AMI).
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This announcement follows a meeting Sunday in Doha between the head of Mauritanian diplomacy Ismaïl Ould Cheikh Ahmed and his Qatari counterpart, Sheikh Mohammed ben Abderrahmane Al-Thani.
The two countries
"have decided to open the two embassies as soon as possible
," the statement said.
Mauritania had severed its relations with Qatar in June 2017. Nouakchott had followed Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Yemen and the Maldives which had cut all relations with Qatar, accusing their partner of Gulf to
"support"
terrorism and to prefer Iran to them.
Qatar, boycotted since then by four Arab countries including three of its Gulf neighbors, reconciled with them at a summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on January 5 in Saudi Arabia.
The GCC brings together, in addition to Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Kuwait.