A few days after the unexpected start to the Gulf crisis, Qatar’s Foreign Minister HE Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has said that the country was open to mediation to resolve the crisis.

“We’re willing to sit and talk,” he said in an interview, adding that the “progressive and modern” country believes in diplomacy and promoting peace in the Middle East, reported Gulf Times.

“We aren’t a superpower here, we aren’t believing in solving things with confrontation,” the Minister said, stressing that Qatar is combating terror financing and “protecting the world from potential terrorists.”

The Foreign Minister disputed a Saudi statement accusing Qatar of ‘embracing terrorist and sectarian groups aimed at destabilising the region.’

“With all due respect, this statement is full of contradictions because it’s saying that we’re supporting Iran and on the other hand supporting the extremist groups in Syria, and (that) we’re supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in Saudi or in Yemen and we’re supporting the Iranian-backed Houthis from the other side. In all battlefields, there’re adversaries,” he said, according to The Peninsula.

“About our support to the Saudi opposition or the sectarian movements in Al Qatif, this is totally false information. Actually, the cooperation between our security and intelligence agencies between Qatar and Saudi has been serving the purpose of the national security of Saudi,” the top official added.

Here is to hoping for a swift and decisive end to the crisis soon.