UNITED NATIONS: There are no apparent plans by Arab states to propose that names from their Qatar blacklist be subjected to United Nations sanctions, diplomats said Wednesday, a likely difficult move that would need approval by the 15-member U.N. Security Council. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain Friday branded 59 people, including Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Youssef al-Qaradawi, as terrorists and 12 entities, among them Qatari-funded charities Qatar Charity and Eid Charity, as having links to terrorism.

The move came days after the four Arab states severed relations with Qatar, accusing it of supporting Islamist militants and their archadversary Iran, charges Qatar rejects. Several other countries followed suit.

At least six of the people on the Arab states blacklist are already named on the U.N. Security Council Al-Qaeda and Daesh (ISIS) sanctions list, which subjects them to a global asset freeze, travel ban and arms embargo.

The United Nations Security Council has imposed sanctions on Al-Qaeda, Daesh, the Taliban and related groups and people with ties to them. Iran is also subjected to a U.N. arms embargo.

The Arab states would need to link people or entities on their blacklist to those U.N. sanctioned groups or to breaches of the Iran arms embargo if they wanted to propose that they be subjected to U.N. sanctions.

For any names to be added to U.N. sanctions lists the Security Council can either agree by consensus behind closed doors or vote on a resolution, which would need nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the United States, Britain, France, Russia or China.

The biggest diplomatic rift in years among the rich states of the Gulf has become a major test for the United States, which is closely allied to the countries on both sides. Qatar hosts the Middle East headquarters for the U.S. Air Force; Bahrain hosts the main base for the U.S. Navy.

The United Nations has said it is only bound by the U.N. Security Council sanctions lists and therefore any stated work with Qatar Charity for example was unaffected by the Arab states’ blacklist.

“The Qatar Charity implements projects included in the U.N.-coordinated Humanitarian Response Plans in Yemen, in Syria and in Iraq, where they also participate in the common humanitarian coordination structure,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.

He said the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs does “not provide funding for them and we do not receive funding from them.”

In other developments, Qatar said it has pulled all of its troops from the border of Djibouti and Eritrea, east African nations that have a long-running territorial dispute which Doha had helped mediate.

Qatar offered no explanation for the move.

While the dispute hasn’t escalated to a military confrontation, Qatar’s military is dwarfed by neighboring Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

The 450 Qatari troops controlled a mountainous border crossing between Eritrea and Djibouti, said Nasreddine Ali, a spokesman for Eritrea’s biggest armed group, known as the Red Sea Afar Democratic Organization. Eritrean forces moved in after the troops departed, Ali said.

Eritrea’s top diplomat to the African Union, Araya Desta, told the Associated Press the move came after Eritrea cut diplomatic ties to Qatar. However, Desta said his country wanted no confrontation with Djibouti.

“We don’t want to take any of Djibouti’s land,” Araya said. “The last time we had some skirmishes. It was unnecessary.”

Doha mediated the conflict between the two countries in 2010. Gulf nations have stationed troops in both African countries, using that as a jumping-off point for the ongoing Saudi-led war in Yemen.

Also Wednesday, Saudi Arabia blocked access to Qatar’s state TV website in the latest move by the kingdom to isolate the tiny Gulf country. Riyadh said the website was blocked because it violates the rules of the Culture and Information Ministry.