Qatar backs Saudi Arabia’s security measures, including the Mecca Alliance

Qatar has declared that it supports Saudi Arabia’s measures to preserve its security, including the Mecca Alliance. The media director at Qatar’s Foreign Ministry, Ibrahim Sultan Al-Hashmi, said Doha “supports the Saudi measures to preserve its security” and “supports every initiative undertaken by the countries of the region, including the Mecca Alliance”, as Al Jazeera reports.

Al-Hashmi added that contacts and visits are continuing in order to make progress in the talks and that “Qatar is open to a visit from the Iranian side to learn of the latest developments”.

The statement comes at a moment when Qatar has played a mediating role between Tehran and Washington, while Iran’s conditions for ending the war were sent to the U.S. precisely through Qatar. Doha’s open support for the Saudi security measures signals a further Gulf rapprochement in the face of the escalation with the Houthis and Iran.