The Qatari leadership is ready to resume mediation efforts to achieve a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement if the parties express their intention to do so. This was announced by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of qatar, Majid bin Mohammed al-Ansari, Day.Az reports with reference to TASS.
“On behalf of my government, I place on record that as soon as we see commitment from both sides, you will see that Qatar will fully resume any [посреднические] efforts that we can make to peacefully resolve this conflict,” he said at the Mediterranean Dialogues conference in Rome.
“first of all, I must say that we will never give up. We made this very clear even in our statement that announced the suspension of our efforts to complete this task and the reason why we suspended these efforts,” he said in response to the moderator’s statement that Qatar surrendered at a certain stage of the mediation. “We are ready to instantly return to the negotiating table when we see readiness on both sides,” added the representative of the Qatari Foreign Ministry. “We are putting pressure on the international community, on both sides [конфликта]so that they do this,” he clarified.
According to al-Ansari, “The intermediary must be careful that he is not used [одной из сторон] to continue the conflict.” In this case, added the representative of the Qatari foreign Ministry, the mediator must “draw a line” and wait for the positions of the conflicting parties to change. If the negotiators do not want to reach an agreement, ”not a single mediator in the world, no matter how powerful he might potentially be, will will be able to create conditions for reaching an agreement,” he added.
As france-Presse reported, citing an unnamed Hamas representative, the Palestinian movement has notified mediators in Egypt, Qatar and Turkey of its readiness to conclude a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip.