Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said the Gulf state would resume normal liquefied natural gas production “within a few weeks,” the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app. Sheikh Mohammed also underscored that establishing a hotline between the US and Iran is essential to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, he told the FT in an interview.He said that the communication line agreed by the warring parties at their talks in Switzerland was needed to counter “disinformation” and ensure coordination. Sheikh Mohammed told FT that one of the challenges was that “anyone who just wants to mess around” could use shipping communications to warn vessels: “‘Go back, we are going to fire, we are the IRGC [Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps].’” “That’s what we are getting sometimes,” Sheikh Mohammed, who has been one of the lead mediators, said.“So the hotline’s purpose is to make sure that any ship that gets any type of threat is to be verified by Iran . . . and to let the ship pass safely.” QatarEnergy suspended LNG production after the US and Israel launched their war on Iran on February 28 following a drone attack on its huge Ras Laffan plant. “Within a few weeks, production will come back to normal, except the damaged facility,” Sheikh Mohammed said. “Our teams have been mobilized already for a few weeks. QatarEnergy is preparing for operations to come back to normal as soon as the situation in the strait normalizes.”With ReutersRead more: Key points from the first round of Iran-US talks