11924 Tags
qatar
1 Article
![1963 State Department cable speaks to a simpler time in Saudi-Qatar relations](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2017/06/06/FaudCov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
1963 State Department cable speaks to a simpler time in Saudi-Qatar relations
by
Beryl Lipton
On Monday, Saudi Arabia announced that it would cutting diplomatic ties to Qatar, leading a collection of the oil-rich peninsula country’s closest neighbors in a regional economic shutout. However, it wasn’t always this way - a quick trawl through the CIA’s CREST database reminds of us an arguably simpler time in Saudi Arabia-Qatar relations, when something as potentially serious as where one nation ended and the other begun was a relative non-issue.