Doha has received an official invitation to the Arab League summit in Riyadh later this month, despite the ongoing boycott, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Lulwa Al-Khater confirmed yesterday, according to the New Arab.

“The state of Qatar has received the invitation to participate in the Arab Summit, and will participate, but we have not yet decided the level of participation,” Al-Khater said in a statement.

Last month, Qatar participated in the preparatory meeting of the Arab League in Egypt after which Qatar’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al-Thani, told the Qatari Shura Council that the country would “attend the next Arab summit regardless of where it is held and the country that will host it”.

However, the Qatari announcement confirming their attendance comes just hours after Reuters quoted five US officials as saying that US President Donald Trump would delay the Camp David summit with Arab Gulf leaders, originally scheduled to take place in May, to September. The US had previously threatened to cancel the annual US-GCC meeting, if Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain did not lift their boycott on Qatar.