Saudi Arabia, along with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt which also imposed an embargo on travel and trade, agreed to lift the restrictions at a Gulf Cooperation Council summit in the kingdom on Tuesday
Photo: Al Jazeera
Saturday morning, Qatar and Saudi Arabia fully reopened the land border crossing between them, Qatari sources told AFP.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt announced a boycott of Qatar in June 2017, against the backdrop of accusations of supporting Islamist extremist groups and rapprochement with Iran.
It closed its airspace to Qatari planes, prevented commercial dealings with the emirate and stopped Qatari entry to its territory.
A reconciliation between the four countries and Qatar took place at a summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council held Tuesday in the Saudi city of Al-Ula, and the four countries announced the lifting of restrictions.
VIDEO: First Qatari vehicles cross the border into Saudi
09 Jan 2021 An officer gives flowers to a driver at a border crossing of Saudi Arabia with Qatar. Reuters
Qatar and Saudi Arabia reopened their land border on Saturday as they restore ties following a landmark deal at Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Saudi Arabia.
A Qatari source told reporters that traffic at the Abu Samrah crossing, 120 kilometres south of Doha, resumed around 0700 GMT on Saturday.
Only a trickle of cars arrived at the palm tree-lined, whitewashed border post to make the short crossing to the Saudi side after news broke that the frontier had reopened.
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