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DOHA: The United Arab Emirates’ president on Monday began his first visit to Qatar since the end of a nearly four-year regional blockade that put ties in the deep freeze.

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan was greeted by Qatar’s emir at the airport, officials said, in a trip that coincides with the ongoing football World Cup in Qatar.

It is the first state visit since January 2021, when a Saudi-led boycott of the gas-rich peninsula that started in June 2017 finally came to an end.

The visit, on the invitation of Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, “builds on the existing brotherly relations between the two nations and their people”, the UAE’s official WAM news agency said.

The first World Cup on Arab soil is taking place less than two years after Saudi Arabia and its allies the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt cut ties, claiming Qatar supported extremists and was too close to Iran — allegations that Doha denied.

Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has already met the emir during the World Cup where he was pictured wearing a Qatar football scarf.

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Rebirth Dec 07, 2022 12:18pm
How did all that anti-Qatari propaganda help in the middle of WW3, when the Americans are reducing their hard power in the region to reinforce other theatres in their global war for absolute, world domination? You’d think that these inheritors of European colonies would have learned a thing or two from their forefathers. Rule #1 of colonialism: when you’re about to reduce your strategic influence in any given region, to reinforce other flanks, make sure you leave behind goodwill or have some soft power left. This stops competing powers from successfully using rhetoric such as “your former colonial masters were manipulative, exploitative and it’s great that they left”. Observe anyone in parts of our Punjab and you’ll know how it worked. Nothing pleases them more than joining the police, bureaucracy or the politics that the British left behind. When they’re not playing their holy and spiritually enlightening sport of Kabaddi, they’ll start a civil war if they must, just to play cricket.
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