‘Qatar’s reassessment of continuing mediation role still under consideration’

Doha, Qatar: Stressing the need for serious commitment by conflicting parties, official spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dr. Majid b...

Doha, Qatar: Stressing the need for ‘serious commitment’ by conflicting parties, official spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dr. Majid bin Muhammad Al Ansari has said that Qatar’s reassessment of continuing its mediation role is still under consideration.

“Qatar is currently undertaking foreign policy initiatives in general and mediation on Gaza crisis in particular out of a desire for succeeding in reducing the escalation,” he said, adding that Qatar was also studying the seriousness of all parties whether they were opposing or supporting the end of the war.

He said that Qatar is committed to its efforts, which resulted in the past in a truce that extended for seven days and succeeded in exchanging prisoners and detainees between the two parties, all through mediation efforts.

He, in a weekly media briefing held yesterday, denounced some officials’ unfair criticism of Qatari mediation. “A number of officials, the Israelis among them in the Netanyahu government, who spoke negatively about the Qatari mediation, all know what the Qatari role is, its nature and details during the previous stages.”

He called for the need to stop these statements that contradict reality and do not reflect the commitment and seriousness in reaching a peaceful agreement and the end of the conflict, pointing at the same time to the Qatari mediation that led to positive results on many occasions, which resulted in the return of more than 109 individuals to their families and the cessation of the war on several occasions.