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Qatar has now moved on from the unjust blockade. “We are over the blockade,” Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani told New York Times recently.
For signs of how Qatar has adapted to the blockade imposed by its neighbours, you just need to go no further than the Al Meera grocery in a strip mall across from a mosque, in a residential part of the capital. Shelves where local products were once rare now are full with Qatari milk, Qatari tissues and Qatari cucumbers.
“This is Qatari. This is Qatari. This is all Qatari,” a supervisor said, pointing out Qatari-made laundry detergent, dish soap and disinfectant.
Producing such products at home may be business as usual for many countries, but for Qatar it was one of many defensive shifts made to withstand the unjust blockade, according to a report in the New York Times.
Eighteen months after the Saudi Arabia-led quartet imposed the blockade, Doha is emerging stronger by the day.
“We carried on, we moved on with our economy, we moved on with our life,” Deputy Prime Minister of Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani said this weekend at the Doha Forum.
Qatar still held out hope for reconciliation, he said, adding that the blockade had caused “a very deep wound among the people” that would be difficult to heal.
Qatar established new trading partners, build up domestic industries and, in some cases, create new ones from scratch.
The FM said the recent killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has lifted the veil on Saudi Arabia’s “impulsive” leadership.
For signs of how Qatar has adapted to the blockade imposed by its neighbours, you just need to go no further than the Al Meera grocery in a strip mall across from a mosque, in a residential part of the capital. Shelves where local products were once rare now are full with Qatari milk, Qatari tissues and Qatari cucumbers.
“This is Qatari. This is Qatari. This is all Qatari,” a supervisor said, pointing out Qatari-made laundry detergent, dish soap and disinfectant.
Producing such products at home may be business as usual for many countries, but for Qatar it was one of many defensive shifts made to withstand the unjust blockade, according to a report in the New York Times.
Eighteen months after the Saudi Arabia-led quartet imposed the blockade, Doha is emerging stronger by the day.
“We carried on, we moved on with our economy, we moved on with our life,” Deputy Prime Minister of Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani said this weekend at the Doha Forum.
Qatar still held out hope for reconciliation, he said, adding that the blockade had caused “a very deep wound among the people” that would be difficult to heal.
Qatar established new trading partners, build up domestic industries and, in some cases, create new ones from scratch.
The FM said the recent killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has lifted the veil on Saudi Arabia’s “impulsive” leadership.
