"There is nothing signed yet, and what I can assure you that Qatar is always enduring the compliance with the international law and also with the sanctions system here, the sanctions regime in the United States, so we are taking everything into consideration," Al Thani said when asked about Qatar negotiating an S-400 systems purchase from Moscow.
"We have very close cooperation with Washington, but this does not mean that we can not look for other options," he stressed, noting that he doesn't think that Qatar-US relations will deteriorate in future.
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In December, Qatar's ambassador to Russia Fahad bin Mohammed Al-Attiyah revealed in an interview with RIA Novosti that Doha was in talks with Moscow on a purchase of Russian-made air defense systems. He also unveiled that the systems in question were the S-400 "Triumph" anti-aircraft missile system and the "Pantsir-S1" self-propelled anti-aircraft missile system.