Saudi King Salman on Tuesday sent his foreign minister to lead the kingdom's delegation to a Gulf summit in Kuwait attended by the ruler of rival Qatar, official media reported.

State television showed Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah receiving Saudi Arabia's top diplomat Adel al-Jubeir at the airport as the head of the kingdom's delegation.

The summit comes six months after Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain cut ties with fellow Gulf Cooperation Council member Qatar, the worst political dispute of the bloc's 36-year history.