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KUWAIT: French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian held talks with top officials in Kuwait on Sunday in a bid to bolster the emirate’s attempts to mediate in the Qatar crisis.
Le Drian met with Kuwaiti emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and Kuwait’s foreign minister, state news agency KUNA said, for talks on the issue.
Le Drian stopped in ��������Ƶ and Qatar at the start of his two-day Gulf tour on Saturday.
The French foreign minister has supported Kuwait as a mediator in the crisis, which he said should be resolved “by the Gulf countries themselves.”
“France does not want to substitute the mediator,” Le Drian said in ��������Ƶ on Saturday. “It wants to be a facilitator by joining efforts of other countries.”
Le Drian’s visit comes after a four-day mediation mission by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, which ended on Thursday with no announcement of progress toward defusing mounting tensions in the Gulf.
The Anti-Terror Quartet (ATQ) imposed sanctions on Doha on June 5, including closing its only land border, denying Qatar access to their airspace and ordering their citizens back from the emirate.