Qatar willing to offer all it can to help achieve stability in region: Foreign Minister

Doha: Qatar's ties with US institutions have always been positive, strong, and strategic regardless of the administration, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said in an interview with Al Araby TV, where he discussed a number of GCC and regional issues.

His Excellency said that every US president had a different policy with different roles in the Middle-East, noting that Qatar played the role it could in establishing security and peace in the region. He cited Qatar's efforts to de-escalate tensions between Iran and the United States during Donald Trump's administration, in addition to its efforts in Iraq and the peace talks between Taliban and the US, which yielded a peace agreement under the Biden administration. His Excellency noted that there is a change in US policy that is more receptive of holding a dialogue with Iran, adding that Qatar's welcomes a solution to Iran's nuclear issue that sees a return to the agreement reached between the parties. His Excellency also said that Qatar sees that the GCC must play a role in the regional security calculations with Iran, stressing that this will not happen except through a regional dialogue between GCC members and Iran to address the former's concerns. His Excellency added that Iran for its part certainly has concerns it wants to share with the GCC, noting that HH the Amir called at his 2015 speech at the UN for such a dialogue.