"The leaders discussed a broad range of defence and security issues, including Qatari support to the NATO mission in Afghanistan and improvements to Al Udeid Air Base", the readout stated.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in January that he had signed a memorandum of understanding with Qatar to expand US presence at Al Udeid air base southwest of Doha.
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According to Pompeo, the base is home to 13,000 US coalition personnel engaged in battling the Daesh terrorist group in Syria and Iraq.
A coalition of a dozen Muslim nations led by Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic ties with Qatar in June 2017, and imposed a de facto commercial blockade over charges that Qatar supports terrorist groups.
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The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, the Maldives, Mauritania, Senegal, Djibouti, the Comoros, Jordan, as well as internationally recognized governments in Libya and Yemen have joined the Saudi-led boycott, according to published reports.
* Daesh (ISIL/ISIS/IS/Islamic State) is a terrorist organisation banned in Russia and many other countries.
