U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that the restoration of Gulf unity is important to the long-term effort to defeat terrorism in the region.
"As you also know, following that summit, though, there was a dispute broke out between three of the Gulf nations – four of the Gulf nations and Egypt. Qatar and what we call 'the Quartet' have differences which have led to actions against Qatar," Tillerson told the briefing.
Tillerson said that the US is committed to see this disagreement resolved, restore Gulf unity.
"We are quite concerned about this dispute, because we think it is destabilizing to the Gulf itself and undermines unity in the GCC, the Gulf Cooperative Council, which we believe is an important organization to maintain stability in the region. We have been engaged working with the emir of Qatar, who has taken on the effort to mediate this dispute," Tillerson said.
According to the Secretary of State, the United States is ready to help the parties, but cannot solve it for them - they must solve it themselves.. "At this point today, the parties are not even speaking to one another. So our objective is to not only have them start talking to one another but to sit down at the table and begin a discussion of dialogue," he added,
