Dubai: Qatar is quickly running out of options amid a diplomatic crisis with the Arab Quartet, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr Anwar Gargash wrote on Twitter Sunday night.
The Arab Quartet has confidently moved beyond the crisis, he said.
“It is no longer a priority for them,” he said, adding that Doha knows what it needs to do to overcome the crisis.
على المستوى السياسي خيارات الدوحة تتضائل،والعواصم ٤ تمضي بثقة متجاوزة هذا الملف والذي لم يعد من الأولويات،قطر تعرف المطلوب للخروج من أزمتها.
— د. أنور قرقاش (@AnwarGargash) October 1, 2017
He said that despite its best efforts, Qatar has failed in its PR campaign to prove to the world that it is being unfairly ‘blockaded’ by Arab states.
Qatar has failed at the UN General Assembly in New York despite investing in an aggressive media campaign, he explained.
“We are saturated by Qatar’s claIms of injustice and messages of denial. The key to resolving the crisis is wisdom and not through the media,” he wrote.
“Solving a problem can only be achieved by addressing the roots,” he wrote.
إنقلب السحر على الساحر، الملف الحقوقي والإنساني سعت قطر إلى تجييره ضد جيرانها فإذا به ينقلب عليها، والحكمة أن بتّر الفتنة في معالجة أسبابها.
— د. أنور قرقاش (@AnwarGargash) October 2, 2017
He also said that Qatar’s pan-Arab Al Jazeera television station is losing its influence in the Arab world.
“The media landscape is shifting in both technology and content. In the Qatar crisis, Saudi Twitter is more influential than Qatar’s Al Jazeera channel,” Gargash posted on his Twitter account.
The Qatar crisis erupted on June 5 when Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt severed their diplomatic relations with Qatar over its support to extremists and funding of terrorism.
Qatar has since been engaged in a charm offensive with Western countries and in a particularly vicious media campaign in the region.
فشلت قطر في نيويورك برغم الإنفاق الأسطوري على الإعلام، وتشبعنا برسائل المظلومية والإنكار، مفتاح حلّ أزمة الثقة السياسة والحكمة لا الإعلام.
— د. أنور قرقاش (@AnwarGargash) October 1, 2017
