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Qatar calls UAE and Bahrain's normalization with Israel 'sovereign decision'

Qatar's foreign minister also stressed a "united front" of Arab states on the Israel-Palestine issue and discussed Qatar's relations with Israel.
Qatari Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani meets with Prime Minister of the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (IKRG) in Arbil, capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, on January 15, 2020. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED / AFP) (Photo by SAFIN HAMED/AFP via Getty Images)

Qatar's foreign minister said at a Monday forum that the Gulf state does not have a position on its neighbors the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain normalizing relations with Israel.

“The Emirati and the Bahraini decision, it’s their own sovereign decision to conduct a bilateral relationship, and we don’t interfere,” said Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani.

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