Daily Memo: Gulf Thaw, Trade Talks Progress, Turkey Pushes Boundaries

There are promising signs on the diplomatic front in the Qatar-GCC dispute and in eastern Ukraine. Turkey, not so much.

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Progress in GCC-Qatar dispute. There are promising signs at the Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Saudi Arabia that Gulf tensions are easing. Qatar sent its prime minister to the summit – the highest-level official dispatched by that country to the summit in two years – and indicated a possible warming of relations with GCC countries […]

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