In a Washington coalition meeting Tuesday Egypt stated that a US-led coalition to combat the Islamic State should not include countries that support terrorism or promote it through its media. Abu Zeid said during the telephone interview that the Egyptian delegation clearly addressed Qatar, also a participant in the meeting, of sponsoring terrorism. On Tuesday, the four Arab [Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Bahrain] countries boycotting Qatar released a statement in which they confirmed that the recent decision to boycott Qatar was in fact due to the Qatari support of terrorism. The statement added that the signing of MOU to combat financing terrorism between Qatar and the US came after endless pressures from the four Arab countries to suspend Qatari support of terrorism. The Qatari diplomatic crisis with the four Arab countries surfaced the Arab political scene on June 5 when the four Arab countries [Egypt, UAE, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia] decided to withdraw their diplomatic ties from Qatar and imposed closure to all naval, Ariel and ground borders with Qatar.

Source: Egypt Independent July 12, 2017 10:52 UTC