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The United Arab Emirates said on Saturday that Doha needed to change its policies before a dialogue could take place. UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said a call for dialogue by Qatar's Emir HH Sheikh Tamin bin Hamad al Thani was welcome, but this could only happen after Doha had made changes.
He did not specify these, but the four countries involved have issued more than a dozen demands, telling Qatar to close down Al Jazeera television, curb relations with Iran and shut down a Turkish military base.
"Dialogue is necessary and needed but its backbone has to be revision,"Gargash said on his Twitter account.
