{"id":11716,"date":"2017-11-20T16:54:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T16:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=11716"},"modified":"2017-11-20T16:54:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T16:54:33","slug":"qatar-urges-neighbors-to-let-nationals-attend-2022-fifa-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/qatar-urges-neighbors-to-let-nationals-attend-2022-fifa-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar urges neighbors to let nationals attend 2022 FIFA World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Qatar has urged the four countries engaged in the\u00a0ongoing Saudi-led diplomatic and trade boycott against the energy-rich Persian Gulf kingdom\u00a0to allow their nationals to attend the 2022 F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association\u00a0(FIFA) World Cup in Doha.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe separate politics from sports. We hope that the blockading nations see reason in this matter and allow for their people to be able to participate in this once in a lifetime opportunity,\u201d Hassan Al Thawadi, secretary general at Qatar’s Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy, told reporters in Doha.<\/p>\n

The committee is responsible for planning and operations for the quadrennial international men’s\u00a0football\u00a0championship contested by the\u00a0national teams\u00a0of the member associations of\u00a0FIFA.<\/p>\n

Thawadi said Doha has had to find new suppliers of construction materials for its World Cup projects ever since Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt imposed a blockade, stressing that efforts at building sports facilities and infrastructure for the tournament remain on track.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur plans are put in place, alternative supply chains are put in place and the projects are continuing on schedule and on cost,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain\u00a0and Egypt all cut off diplomatic ties\u00a0with Qatar on June 5, after officially accusing it of \u201csponsoring terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n

The administration of Saudi-backed\u00a0and resigned Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Libya, the Maldives, Djibouti, Senegal and the Comoros later joined the camp in ending diplomatic ties. Jordan downgraded its\u00a0diplomatic relations as well.<\/p>\n

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People walk on the corniche of the Qatari capital Doha on July 2, 2017. \u00a0(Photo by AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Qatar’s Foreign Ministry later announced that the decisions to cut diplomatic ties were unjustified and based on false claims and assumptions.<\/p>\n

On June 9, Qatar strongly dismissed allegations of supporting terrorism after the Saudi regime and its allies blacklisted dozens of individuals and entities purportedly associated with Doha.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe recent joint statement issued by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the UAE regarding a \u2018terror finance watch list\u2019 once again reinforces baseless allegations that hold no foundation in fact,\u201d the Qatari government said in a statement.<\/p>\n

On June 23, Saudi Arabia and its allies released a 13-point list\u00a0of demands, including the closure of Al Jazeera television network and downgrade of relations with Iran,\u00a0in return for the normalization of diplomatic relations with Doha.<\/p>\n

The document containing the demands by Saudi Arabia,\u00a0Egypt, the UAE and\u00a0Bahrain also asked\u00a0Qatar to sever all ties with the\u00a0Muslim Brotherhood\u00a0and the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Qatar has urged the four countries engaged in the\u00a0ongoing Saudi-led diplomatic and trade boycott against the energy-rich Persian Gulf kingdom\u00a0to allow their nationals to attend the 2022 F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association\u00a0(FIFA) World Cup in Doha. \u201cWe separate politics from sports. We hope that the blockading nations see reason in this matter and allow for …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11718,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716\/revisions\/11718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}