UAE Restores Qatar Postal Service after More Than 2 Years
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The United Arab Emirates has restored mail services to Qatar, frozen for more than two years amid a diplomatic rift, after a regional meeting attended by both Persian Gulf states and the United Nations’ postal agency.
It wasn’t immediately clear why the service was restored, nor whether it indicated any mending of ties between the countries mired in a wider diplomatic dispute that has hurt trade and split the six-nation (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council.
The UN’s Universal Postal Union said on Twitter that Emirates Post, which runs services in the UAE, had hosted a regional meeting last week that included officials from the UAE, Qatar and other Arab countries. It didn’t give more details. Emirates Post and Qatar Post didn’t immediately respond to emailed requests for comment.
Emirates Post suspended services in June 2017 after the UAE along with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt cut diplomatic, trade and travel ties with Qatar, accusing it of funding terrorism, charges the government in Doha denied.