The Schema of Qatar behind the “regional security agreement”

Doha is still trying to arrange its cards again, to try to find a way out of the state of isolation that it has been living in since 2017, which led it to an economic crisis that struck all sectors of the state, and for this it is trying to play with a new card represented in offering a “security-regional” agreement that bears A lot of hidden intentions.

In a new attempt for “Qatar”, Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al-Thani spoke on May 9, 2020, about the Middle East’s need for a “security-regional” agreement that provides basic stability for the region, to confront various crises, including the Corona pandemic.

Qatari Foreign Minister, during his participation in an online symposium on global foreign policy and diplomacy in the Gulf region and abroad, hosted by the Johns Hopkins University Foreign Policy Institute: “Instead of applying exclusion or restriction, we have a greater opportunity to achieve long-term security through cooperation and dialogue The direct accountable within a regional security framework.

In this context, the Qatari Minister of Foreign Affairs did not clarify the shape of this agreement and what countries are involved in it, especially since Iran and Turkey are two countries in the Middle East to keep the project vague.

These Qatari attempts have several goals, according to Tariq Fahmy, a professor of political science at Cairo University, explaining that the Qatari Foreign Minister’s speech must be put in place in several contexts. First, the proposed security agreement corresponds in one way or another with the American proposal for the “Arab NATO” idea, which is to enter the Cooperation Council Gulf, Jordan and Egypt in a security and strategic partnership.

He continued in a statement to the “reference”, that the second matter is an attempt to enter other regional parties in this line such as Iran, Turkey, and Israel, and there are question marks here regarding the Turkish and Iranian role, especially and Israel, which requested a good-neighborly agreement and no aggression with the Gulf countries, and this proposal revolved Many details at the session of the United Nations General Assembly last September.

He added that the third context is to meet with the American ground, especially that America is also re-arranging its cards now, after withdrawing its batteries from Saudi Arabia, and Qatar is currently seeking to draft this agreement according to its perception, but this proposal was not accepted.

He pointed out that Qatar is still feeling a state of isolation, as a result of the continued boycott with the Arab Quartet «Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Bahrain», and there are regional and development pressures for them to review their course, and the apparent instability in the ruling family cannot be excluded, and its desire to jump on Internal problems.

It is worth noting that Qatar’s current state of pressure made it seek reconciliation with the Arab Quartet, on April 25, 2020, when Qatar sent a statement to the UN Security Council, by Sheikha Alia Al Thani, Qatar’s permanent representative to the United Nations, calling for an end to the boycott imposed by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt should confirm it, stressing that the solution to this crisis has become “more urgent”.

In her statement, the delegate of Qatar indicated that the boycott imposed by the four countries “is one of the crises that have further complicated the situation in the region and cast negative shadows on its security and stability”, and claimed that its country is subject to a “provocative and misleading” campaign from the countries of the province.

She stressed the necessity of resolving the crisis, saying: «ending the illegal and unjust blockade of the State of Qatar has become more urgent, and ending the blockading countries’ blocking of their airspace in front of Qatar aircraft, which is a violation of international law and the provisions of the Chicago International Aviation Agreement ».

Doha incurred huge economic losses, since the boycott decision taken by Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, due to Qatar’s involvement in supporting and financing terrorism, which caused the collapse of the Qatari economy.

In June 2018, Qatar Central Bank data revealed that Doha has sold bonds and bills worth 59.3 billion riyals ($ 16.2 billion) since the decision to boycott the four countries, which confirmed the aggravation of the Qatar financial crisis.

Qatari banks have lost $ 40 billion in foreign financing (resident and non-resident deposits, private sector deposits and inter-bank deposits) since the boycott decision, and Qatar, in order to avoid a further decline in the sale of its assets, had to issue debt instruments (bonds, bills, bonds, sukuk).