Bahrain stops issuing visas for Qataris

SANAA, Aug. 23 (YPA) – Bahrain’s Interior Ministry announced Thursday the suspension of issuing new entry visas for Qatari nationals, justifying that this decision comes in response to what it called the hostile policy by Doha.

The two countries’ citizens were traveling without visas, but the repercussions of the crisis prompted the Bahraini authorities to impose entry restrictions on Qataris, and t then canceled it completely, in light of an ongoing diplomatic crisis between the GCC countries for more than a year.

Manama’s decision comes after Doha accused Riyadh of obstructing the arrival of Qatari pilgrims for the second consecutive year to Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj, and it also comes after a series of air frictions between Qatari and other Emirati planes, which was almost to put the crisis in more dangerous directions.

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