Dubai: A day before the scheduled meeting in Kuwait on Wednesday between Kuwaiti Emir Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, and Qatar’s Emir Shaikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, political analysts and media editorials expressed scepticism over Doha’s intention to respect its pledges in any possible agreement.

Qatar, they added, has broken its commitments in the August 2014 Riyadh Declaration, which ended then a several weeks of political crisis with the rest of the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

“No mediation effort from Kuwait or other parties will succeed, unless Qatar changes its provocative policies,” Mohammad Al Hammadi, Editor-in-Chief of the Arabic-language Al Etihad newspaper published in Abu Dhabi, said.

Qatar, he said, has to stop talking and offering empty promises. “After three years of broken promises, Doha must prove its good deeds and not goodwill.”

By not keeping its promises, and committing itself to the minimum of the 2014 declaration, Doha has lost its credibility, said UAE political scientist Abdul Khaliq Abdullah.

Riyadh Declaration demanded Qatar to stop funding and hosting terrorist organisations. However, leaders of those terrorist organisations are still living there and the funding has been maintained. “Had that funding stopped these groups would have ceased to work,” he said.

Scepticism over the success of the Kuwaiti mediation was also reflected in several Saudi press commentaries.

“The Saudi, Gulf and Arab collective consciousness is now fully aware of the negative policies by Qatar that oppose Arab solidarity, threaten the Gulf strategic security and embrace Iran’s terrorist regime,” Faheem Al Hamed wrote in Saudi daily Okaz on Tuesday.

Saudi daily Al Eqtisadiya wrote in its Tuesday’s editorial saying that Qatar has not honoured its past pledges and that it has had oscillating political positions and wrong decisions towards its own people and its neighbours.

“Qatar has for the last two decades believed that with some loud shouting and the non-respect of others and of iconic figures, it can force everybody into fearing and venerating it,” the daily said. “The fact is that Qatar is on its way towards further isolation similar to the one suffered by Iran.”