Qatar says Europe will need help if Russia cuts gas

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Al-Araby

Qatar’s energy minister told the European Union on Tuesday that his country could not rescue Europe alone if Russia turned off gas supplies amid spiking tensions over Ukraine. But the minister, Saad al-Kaabi, told EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson that Qatar was ready to help Europe “in times of need”. The United States has raised the possibility of Qatar, one of the world’s leading gas producers, supplying Western European nations in talks, officials said. The Ukraine crisis was a key topic in a meeting on Monday between US President Joe Biden and Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Than…

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