Providing food supplies for the Qatari market became an unsettling issue to Doha, after it has lost its huge supply chain from Saudi Arabia and the UAE when they declared along with Bahrain and Egypt to boycott the mini-state last june.

Doha is facing this issue in a desperate manner, so it opened its doors to import from Iran and Turkey. Obviously that wasn’t enough so it resorted to importing from Russia.

Qatar’s ambassador to Russia, Fahad Bin Mohammed Al Attiyah, stated that his country is willing to buy agricultural products from Russia, and arrangements to visit Russia’s Minister of Agriculture, Aleksandr Tkachyov, are being made.

According to Al Attiyah, Doha needs to succeed in this visit to discuss removing the obstacles that face producers and Russian products in the Qatari market, and to increase the supply chain’s sufficiency.