DAVOS: US and British military strikes will not contain attacks by Yemen’s Houthis on commercial shipping lanes in the Red Sea but will risk further regional escalation, said Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdelrahman Al-Thani.
Speaking during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Al-Thani urged diplomatic efforts over military resolutions when solving the expanding regional conflicts, noting that the escalation in the Red Sea was the “most dangerous” because it was affecting international trade.
“If we are focusing only on symptoms and not treating the real issue, (solutions) will be temporary.”
He said Qatar believed that defusing the conflict in Gaza would stop the escalation on other fronts, adding that the current regional situation is a “recipe for escalation everywhere.”
Al-Thani reiterated that diplomacy and the two-state solution are the only way forward in Palestine, noting that no amount of Israeli force throughout the years brought the path closer to peace.
