Countries That Broke Ties With Qatar Indicate Some Flexibility on Demands<br />Saudi said that Our aim is to reach a diplomatic solution,<br />ompromise — but no compromise on the six principles." The United Arab Emirates ambassador to the United Nations, Lana Nusseibeh, said<br />that regardless what happens next, "we’re never going back to the status quo — that needs to be understood by the Qataris." There was no immediate comment from Qatar’s United Nations ambassador, Alya Ahmed Al Thani. that of course we can c<br />Ms. Nusseibeh was joined at the news conference by Reem al Hashimy, the United Arab Emirates minister of state for<br />international cooperation, who said all four countries "are completely aligned" in their position regarding Qatar.<br />By RICK GLADSTONEJULY 18, 2017<br />Senior diplomats from the four Arab countries that have broken ties with Qatar indicated Tuesday<br />that they were no longer insisting on 13 precise demands that the Qataris must satisfy, or on a specific deadline for them to comply.<br />Speaking at a news conference convened by the United Arab Emirates at its mission to the United<br />Nations, the diplomats said they wanted and expected to resolve the crisis amicably.<br />Those false quotes, which appeared May 24 just after President Trump’s counterterrorism summit meeting with Arab nations in Saudi Arabia,<br />were among the catalysts for the Qatar crisis, which led the Emiratis, Saudis, Egyptians and Bahrainis to ban Qatari news media.
