Qatar reveals its position on Khashoggi’s case

SANAA, April 4 (YPA) – Lulwa al-Khater, a spokesperson for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry, said that the reason Qatar did not speak out on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi last year, was to ensure that the tensions in the region would not worsen any further.

She pointed out that Doha had adhered to this approach even when international allegations about the involvement of the royal family escalated, adding that her country could have politicized the issue and could have played it easily, but chose not to.”

Instead, we took the backseat, just because it was the right thing for us to do,” the spokeswoman said.

Qatar has been under economic and diplomatic sanctions by Saudi Arabia, the UAE and a couple of their client states since 2017.

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