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The Director of the Media Office at the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Ahmed bin Saeed Al Rumaihi, termed the details in a Foreign Policy magazine report about a Saudi Arabian proposal to invade Qatar as “shocking”.
“It is shocking (that it came) from a member state of the Gulf Cooperation Council,” he said.

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It is regrettable that the military option is on the table for countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council towards a member state in this system that was originally built on collective security,” Rumaihi wrote in a series of tweets on Saturday. 
“We emphasised from the beginning that the accusations that the blockading countries tried to impose on us are nothing but to create justifications for achieving other larger goals that risk the future of the region and its peoples,” he said.
“The military option revealed by the American magazine reinforces what His Highness the Amir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, said in a joint press conference with US President Donald Trump, at the White House on September 7, 2017, about the success of Kuwaiti mediation in stopping the military intervention against Qatar.
“The fact that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has not yet denied what was revealed by the American magazine indicates the truth of what happened, which is extremely dangerous to the security and stability of the region," he said stressing that “the military option that was presented to the blockading countries violates international law, and all the covenants accepted by us as countries in the United Nations to resolve disputes by peaceful means, as well as clearly expressing an adventurous and irresponsible policy similar to the one that led the region to instability in the early 1990s.”
The Foreign Policy magazine on August 6, 2020, published a report saying the United States “firmly rejected” the Saudi Arabian proposal in 2017.
The magazine explained that this came during a phone call between them on June 6, 2017, that is, just one day after Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt imposed the blockade on Qatar, following a widespread campaign of fabrications.

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