A WikiLeaks document revealed that Jordan's official government spokesman sharply criticized Qatar on October 3 ,2006 for failing to support the candidacy of Prince Zeid for Secretary General for the United Nations against the Korean Foreign minister, Ban Ki Moon.

The leaked document is an email sent from the American ambassador to Jordan David Hale to the American Foreign Affairs ministry. The email’s address is “Government and media lash out at Qatar”.

On the same day, Jordan recalled its ambassador to Qatar to protest Qatar’s backing of Ban Ki Moon because it betrayed the Arab consensus, as all Arab foreign ministers (including Qatar) had vowed to back his nomination.

In those days, spokesman Nasser Joudeh suggested that the Qatari stance towards Jordan is due to the alignment between us and the Saudis. He told media October 2 that they were concerned with Qatar's "lack of commitment" to the Arab League's position in support of the candidacy for UN Secretary General of Jordan's PermRep, Prince Zeid bin Raad.

WikiLeaks document said that an editorial in the leading, semi-official Arabic daily Al-Rai blamed Qatari Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani for Qatar's support of South Korean candidate Ban Ki-Moon, saying "Qatar's Foreign Minister has left his negative fingerprints on Qatar's relations with Arab countries since he assumed his post" and that Qatar's lack of support for Prince Zeid demonstrates "the level of hatred and meanness that Qatar's diplomacy has reached."

Omani Islamist member of  parliament Taysir al-Fityani, deployed an Arabic proverb: "I side with my brother against my cousin, and I side with my cousin against a stranger."  Qatar, he told the press," has sided with a stranger against its brother."

King Abdullah II told the Ambassador that two members of the security council had informed Jordanian officials that Qatar was actively lobbying against Prince Zeid's candidacy, thus reinforcing his certainty of Qatar's opposition.  

This is one event in a series that has contributed to a steady deterioration of Qatari-Jordanian relations.  Others include the perception that Qatar promoted Iranian interests in the Arab League debate on Lebanon, and used al-Jazeera to attack King Abdullah and other moderate Arabs.