Anwar Gargash denied as false a story in the Washington Post that cited US officials saying the UAE had orchestrated the hack of Qatar's state news agency. "The Washington Post story today that we actually hacked the Qataris is also not true," he told the London-based think-tank Chatham House. Yet the UAE would not escalate its boycott by asking companies to choose between doing business with it or with Qatar, he added. Gargash, who also suggested international monitoring of Qatar was needed, added there were no plans for a meeting between the two sides under the auspices of Kuwait, a neutral Gulf Arab country seeking to mediate in the spat. "We are too early to speak about meetings, before we get a mediation with some traction," he said.

Source: bd News24 July 17, 2017 11:37 UTC