Adds background, boat incident, earlier CAIRO DUBAI, Jan 10
Adds background, boat incident, earlier CAIRO
DUBAI, Jan 10 (Reuters) – Bahrain will open its airspace to Qatar as of Jan. 11, the civil aviation affairs authority stated on Sunday, following a U.S.-backed deal by Arab states final week to finish a dispute with Doha.
The transfer comes after Riyadh introduced a breakthrough at a summit on Tuesday to finish the bitter political row during which Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt imposed a diplomatic, commerce and journey boycott on Qatar in mid-2017.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE have already introduced reopening air, land and sea entry factors to Qatar.
Saudi Arabia’s international minister had stated on the summit that the 4 states agreed to revive all ties with Qatar which had been severed over accusations that Doha helps terrorism. Qatar denies this and says the embargo aimed to curb its sovereignty.
Nonetheless a senior UAE official stated final week that whereas commerce and journey hyperlinks may very well be resumed inside per week, restoring diplomatic ties would take extra time as events rebuild belief.
In an indication of continued stress, Bahrain’s international ministry earlier on Sunday stated Qatar’s coast guard arrested Bahraini bodybuilding champion Sami Al Haddad whereas on a fishing cruise and known as on Doha “to cease attacking Bahraini fishermen at sea and unfairly arresting them”.
The director of Bahrain’s coast guard operations stated in a separate assertion that Haddad and one other Bahraini had been arrested on Friday over allegations of getting into Qatari territorial waters within the third such incident since November.
There was no quick remark from Qatari authorities.
In December, Qatar’s inside ministry stated its coastguard stopped a Bahraini cruiser catching fish in Qatari territorial waters and arrested three folks.
The earlier month, Bahrain’s inside ministry accused Qatari coastguard vessels of violating regional and worldwide agreements after they stopped two Bahraini boats inside Qatari waters.
(Reporting by Nayera Abdallah in Cairo and Ghaida Ghantous and Lisa Barrington in Dubai; Modifying by Invoice Berkrot and Daniel Wallis)
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