From Foreign Waters

  Here’s something good that I want to share with what I read today. It’s about the   liquefied natural gas big hauler that stacked payload from Qatar is flagging the UAE as its objective, the main such shipment since mid-2017, reflecting improving ties between the nations. As well all know, U AE and different nations in the area cut off relations with Qatar in mid-2017 over allegations that Doha upholds illegal intimidation, a charge that it denies.   However, this is something surprising, the UAE re-opened all its property, ocean and air passage focuses with Qatar this year after Saudi Arabia reported a forward leap in finishing a debate between Gulf Arab states and Qatar at a highest point. Prior to the debate, Qatar was an ordinary exporter of LNG to the UAE throughout the mid year, when interest for power age increments .

Qatar is delaying payment of wages for migrant workers. In a report issued on Saturday, Human Rights Watch said that the Qatari efforts to ensure regular payment of workers' wages in full, "do not meet" international standards, talking about gaps in the protection systems for migrant workers. Foreigners make up 90% of Qatar's 2.75 million people, the majority of them from developing countries working on projects related to the hosting of the 2022 World Cup. In 2015, Qatar established a wage protection system to ensure that employers adhere to the deadlines for paying their employees' wages in full, against the backdrop of criticism by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch in this regard. A Human Rights Watch report revealed that an unnamed employer had delayed the payment of his managers ’wages for 5 months, and his workers’ wages for two months, highlighting loopholes in the Ministry of Labor’s monitoring of non-compliance with the payment of wages...

On Sunday, while speaking to London-based Al-Araby Al-Jadeed and Lebanon-based Al-Mudun, Qatar’s foreign minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, expressed his country’s indebtedness towards Turkey, especially for its support during the Arab boycott. Qatar faced economic blockade from the the regional powers, including Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Bahrain, over its ties with terror groups including Brotherhood, Hamas (Brotherhood’s Palestinians wing) ISIS and Al Qaeda. Al Thani said, “Turkey has supported the people of Qatar in a very tough time when our neighbours acted against us and some other countries left us alone as a result of political pressure. Therefore, we will never forget this stance and we will side with them in the face of any difficulty." Al Thani told reporters, “Turkey is one of the leading countries that we prioritize our relations. We are in a consensus about many issues that we share the same political opinion on. One of them is to assist the Syria...