(11 Jul 2017) The United States and Qatar have signed an agreement aimed at shoring up the Gulf nation's counterterrorism efforts.
The memorandum of understanding was signed on Tuesday during a visit to the energy-rich country by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Tillerson is in the Gulf on a mission aimed at ending a rift between Qatar and four Arab states that accuse it of supporting extremists.
Qatar denies the allegation.
Tillerson's arrival in the Gulf coincided with the release by CNN on Monday of allegedly leaked agreements between Qatar and its neighbours dating from 2013 and 2014.
CNN said it received the documents from a source in the region.
Qatar's Foreign Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, on Tuesday said Qatar was "utterly committed" to the so-called Riyadh-agreements and any assertion that it had broken its commitment were false.
Tillerson, a former oilman with years of experience in the oil-rich region, began his Gulf visit Monday by meeting Kuwait's ruler, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah.
The Kuwaiti leader has been acting as a mediator between Qatar and the quartet of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt.
Tillerson later arrived back in Kuwait after a day of negotiations in Qatar.
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