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"The diplomat added: “Despite Qatar’s commitment to growing the partnership further, it is deeply disappointing that the Belgian government made no effort to engage with our government to establish the facts once they became aware of the allegations.” 

But the diplomat said: “We aren’t threatening to cut supplies or anything. We are simply saying [that] to stop communication in the EU parliament this way limits cooperation.”