Alwaght- Qatar has blamed Saudi-led regime of imposing on the country an economic warfare saying it plans to seek compensation for those hit by the sanctions.
"This is economic warfare," Qatari foreign ministry spokeswoman Lulwa al-Khater said at a press briefing as a Saudi-led boycott enters its eighth month.
Khater said the energy-rich Persian Gulf emirate would "not leave a stone unturned" in legally pursuing claims for businesses.
Early June, Saudi-led regimes severed relations with Qatar and imposed a blockade against it, accusing Doha of funding "extremism". Qatar has vehemently rejected the allegations as "baseless".
On June 22, the block, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, issued a 13-point list of demands, including the shutdown of Al Jazeera TV, limiting ties with Iran, and expelling Turkish troops stationed in the country as a prerequisite to lifting the blockade.
Qatar rejected all the demands, denouncing them as attempts to violate its sovereignty.
The Saudi-led regimes have banned all flights to and from Doha and cut off most trade links. The Persian Gulf emirate says the sanctions have hit companies as well as citizens and expatriates. It has set up a committee to pursue claims, which Doha says are potentially worth billions of dollars.
Meanwhile, a blockade against Qatar by several fellow members of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council is arbitrary and negatively impacting the people of the region, according to a new UN investigation.
In November 2017, representatives from the United Nations' Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) visited Qatar, where they met with some 20 governmental and civil society groups, as well as people who had been affected by the blockade.
Following the mission's visit from 17 to 24 November, OHCHR issued a report and sent a copy to the National Human Rights Committee of Qatar (NHCR).
In a press conference on Monday, Ali bin Smaikh al-Marri, head of NHRC, said the study was proof the blockade is illegal.
"This report shows without a spec of doubt that these procedures undertaken by blockading countries are not mere diplomatic severing of relations, they are not just an economic boycott," he said.
"These are unilateral, abusive, arbitrary measures that are impacting citizens and expats in Qatar."
According to Marri, the OHCHR had requested a visit to the countries imposing the blockade before issuing the report, but never received a reply.
