( MENAFN - Gulf Times) Moody's Investors Service (Moody's) on Friday changed the outlook on the Qatar government's long-term issuer ratings to stable from negative and affirmed the long-term issuer and foreign-currency senior unsecured debt ratings at Aa3. The key driver of the outlook change to stable is Moody's assessment that Qatar can withstand the economic, financial and diplomatic boycott by the three neighbouring GCC countries and Egypt in its current form, or with possible further restrictions, for an extended period of time without a material deterioration of the sovereign's credit profile, Moody's has said in a statement. This assessment is in part based on evidence of broad resilience of Qatar's credit metrics to the economic and financial blockade over the past 13 months.