Qatari news network Jazeera suspended on Monday the broadcast of its Egyptian channel, Jazeera Mubasher Misr, two days after Egypt and Qatar “responded” to the Saudi monarch’s invitation “to consolidate relations between them”. “Jazeera Mubasher Misr airs its last news bulletin from Doha,” the channel announced on its news bar. The suspension will last until the “circumstances are appropriate” for return, the channel said. It added that it is seeking the conclusion of necessary permits for broadcasting in Egypt, in coordination with the authorities. Egypt and Qatar both embraced an appeal by Saudi King Abdullah to consolidate relations between them,” the Saudi Royal Court announced on Saturday. The announcement closely followed a meeting between Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and a Qatari Special envoy of the emir of Qatar and an envoy of King Abdullah on Saturday. King Abdullah had urged Egypt in November to back an agreement between the gulf countries brokered in Riyadh to restore diplomatic relations with Qatar. Egypt has withdrawn its ambassador to the Gulf state in March following critical comments made by Qatari emir Sheik Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on Egypt’s domestic affairs. Egyptian ties with Qatar have…
