Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain agreed on 16 November to send their ambassadors back to Qatar, signalling the formal end of a rift which has troubled the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) over the past eight months. Following a meeting in Riyadh attended by the emirs of Qatar and Kuwait, Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani and Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, the kings of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, Abdullah Bin Abdelaziz Al-Saud and Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and the ruler of Dubai, Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, a joint statement said the leaders had reached the “Riyadh supplementary agreement”, which would herald the “opening of a new page”.