Qatar's ex-premier urges Arab leaders to settle dispute

DOHA, Jan 13 (Xinhua): Qatar's former Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani said that the Arab world needs to find ways to settle the disagreements among them, the state-run Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported on Sunday.
"Arab leaders have to find ways to heal rift and put the Arab world in its rightful place," al-Thani said in an interview with Russia Today channel.
Asked about the Gulf crisis, Thani said that it is intended at the present "to remain without escalation or solution."
He mentioned also that the failure of the mediator to solve the Gulf crisis is because of the conflicting positions of Washington and the intransigence of the parties.
"Qatar is fine despite the siege and is overcoming the fabricated crisis. The blockading countries have not come up with any evidence so far of the accusation that Qatar supports terrorism," Thani added.
On the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, he said that they are waiting for justice.
Meanwhile, he also called for an immediate end to the Yemeni war, which he described as a "grave mistake."