Qatar and Bahrain will resume their diplomatic ties and end years-long dispute, both Bahrain news agency (BNA) and the Qatari foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

The move comes over two years after an Arab boycott of Qatar was lifted.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt in January 2021 ended a 3-1/2-year embargo of Qatar but all but Bahrain restored travel and trade links in 2021.

On Wednesday, April 12, 2023, the Bahraini-Qatari Follow-up Committee held its second meeting at the headquarters of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) General Secretariat in the Saudi capital where the decision was made, the two countries said in separate statements.

In January, Bahrain's Crown Prince spoke with Qatar's Emir by telephone, in a sign the two Gulf states were moving towards repairing relations.