This resumption is the outcome of the meeting that was especially organised and attended by all the countries concerned on January 29, 2020 at the Universal Postal Union (UPU) headquarters in Berne, Switzerland, the CRA said in a statement.
This means that the blockading countries will resume postal services to Qatar this month through a specified third country (Oman), hence, ending the suspension of postal traffic which they put in place since the beginning of the blockade in June 2017, where postal services companies in Qatar were not able to receive or send postal items to the blockading countries or even to receive and send postal items to other countries through the blockading countries. This situation has affected many citizens and residents in Qatar who use the postal services in commercial services, or to communicate with their relatives and friends in these countries or through them.
The CRA noted that Qatar Postal Services Company (Q-Post) is ready to resume the postal services with the blockading countries, to protect the rights of postal consumers in Qatar.
Meanwhile, the CRA underlined that it is also working with the entities concerned to proceed with the complaint lodged by Qatar based on the UPU Rules, which relates to the blockading countries suspending postal traffic to Qatar. The matter shall be discussed during the meeting of the UPUs council of administration which is currently ongoing and attended by a high-level Qatari delegation.
