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Egypt, Qatar move closer to reconciliation

The foreign ministers of Egypt and Qatar met in Cairo for the first time since 2017 to discuss implementation of a reconciliation agreement amid a wider Gulf conflict.
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry attends the first joint European Union and Arab League summit at the International Congress Centre in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, on February 24, 2019. (Photo by MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP)        (Photo credit should read MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP via Getty Images)

Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani recently said that his country and Egypt are working toward rapprochement two months after the signing of a reconciliation agreement between the two sides.

In the first meeting since the two countries restored diplomatic relations as part of a reconciliation agreement that officially ended more than three years of Gulf division, Al-Thani met with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry in Cairo March 3 on the sidelines of an Arab League meeting.

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