UAE says headed for 'long estrangement' with Qatar

The Persian Gulf, from space [Flickr: NASA, International Space Station, 12/30/11]

There will be no quick end to the row between Qatar and the four states boycotting it including the United Arab Emirates, the UAE minister of state for foreign affairs wrote on his official Twitter account on Friday.

“We are headed for a long estrangement … we are very far from a political solution involving a change in Qatar’s course, and in light of that nothing will change and we have to look for a different format of relations,” Anwar al-Gargash said.

متجهون إلى قطيعة ستطول،هو ملخص الشواهد التي أمامنا، وكما تصرخ قطر بالقرار السيادي فالدول الأربع المقاطعة للإرهاب تُمارس إجراءتها السيادية.

— د. أنور قرقاش (@AnwarGargash) July 13, 2017

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