Qatar's Foreign Ministry announced that Qatar has accepted Saudi Arabia's invitation to attend the Arab League summit in Riyadh on April 15, but has not yet decided its level of participation, Al Jazeera reported April 5. The invitation comes amid a diplomatic crisis that began in June 2017 when Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain imposed a blockade on Qatar over its alleged support for terrorism and ties to Iran, causing the Gulf Cooperation Council to fragment .