Qatari and Saudi top diplomats express hope that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine will draw attention to other conflicts around the world at the same level
Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani, US Senator Lindsey Graham, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Budget, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell and Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud attends the Doha Forum in Doha, Qatar March 26, 2022.
"The humanitarian suffering that we have seen in Ukraine, and everyone is talking about it right now... has been the suffering of a lot of countries in this region for years and nothing happened," Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani told a roundtable at the annual Doha Forum on Saturday.
Europe and the US hope the two countries will boost oil and gas production to help reduce Western reliance on Russian supplies. Hundreds of thousands of people in Yemen have been killed, directly or indirectly, and millions have been displaced as a result of its years-long conflict, in what the UN calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis.