The Crisis In The Gulf Worries Moscow

Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani in a previous meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on 15 April 2017,  in Moscow.

Five days after diplomatic ties between Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Yemen and Egypt, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, head of the Qatari diplomacy, was in Moscow on Saturday to meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. Moscow said it was ready to act to try to bring down the tension in the region.

In meeting with his Qatari counterpart Sergei Lavrov recalled that Russia had a principle not to interfere in the internal affairs of a state or in the bilateral relations of two of them. But at the same time, the head of Russian diplomacy pointed out that Moscow could not rejoice to see relations between its partners deteriorate.




In accepting to receive the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, Moscow is once again taking advantage of it to assert itself as an unavoidable power in the solution of problems emerging on the international scene.

All the more so because the tensions that shake the Gulf monarchies can have important repercussions on the Syrian crisis where Moscow is engaged decisively in the fight against the Islamic State, alongside Bashar al-Assad.

Moscow fears that this crisis will go beyond the borders of the Gulf countries and spread to the rest of the Middle East. This is why the Russian Minister, in welcoming Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, recalled that Moscow wanted the parties to settle their differences by negotiation and that Russia was ready to act "  with the consent and in the interests of the parties involved  "To resolve this conflict diplomatically