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Tribune News Network
Doha
The economic and political blockade imposed by a Saudi Arabia-led Arab bloc has made Qatar, its people and businesses stronger, Qatar Petroleum Chief Executive Saad Sherida al Kaabi told Al Jazeera on Saturday.
"I would like to thank the four countries for their blockade, because it has made Qatar stronger, the people of Qatar stronger, their businesses stronger. We will come out of this crisis much stronger than before," he said referring to the blockade by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt that severed relations with Qatar on June 5, cutting off land, sea and air links.
However, the Qatar Petroleum chief does not expect things to get back to earlier positions.
"We will never go back to depending on one supplier. The trust built over the years has been broken over night," he said.
"As for LNG, we supply Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Pakistan, India. In the Middle East, we supply the UAE, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Spain, France, Belgium, Poland, Germany, UK. We supply everybody that needs LNG. There is not one buyer of LNG that does not call on Qatar to supply it," Kaabi said.
Talking about the Dolphin gas pipeline agreement with the UAE, Kaabi said Qatar would not cut off gas to the UAE ” despite a"force majeure" clause in the Dolphin gas pipeline agreement with the UAE.
