Qatar on Sunday announced it was establishing a committee to pursue compensation claims potentially worth billions of dollars over the country’s “blockade” by the other Gulf states, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

Attorney General Ali bin Fetais al-Marri said the Compensation Claims Committee would deal with cases including major companies, such as Qatar Airways, and individual Qatari students who have been expelled from the countries where they were studying.

“This committee will receive all claims, whether from the public sector, private sector, or individuals,” Marri told journalists at a press conference in Doha.