Tillerson Cancels Mexico Trip to Focus on Qatar Crisis
- The secretary of state has been meeting with Gulf allies
- OAS meeting in Cancun is expected to focus on Venezuela
Rex Tillerson
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson canceled a trip to Mexico to try to resolve a crisis in the Persian Gulf sparked by a Saudi-led coalition’s move to isolate Qatar over its ties to Iran and militant groups.
Tillerson had been expected to go to Cancun on Monday for less than 24 hours for a meeting of the Organization of American States, where the main focus is to be Venezuela’s political crisis. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan will go instead, the State Department said in a statement Friday.