UAE offers Russia help solve Ukraine crisis

UAE President Sheikh Mohammed offers support to Russia for peace efforts in Ukraine during talks with Putin.


Reuters October 22, 2024
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan attend the opening of the Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Education Centre at Primakov School in Razdory, outside Moscow. Photo: AFP

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MOSCOW:

United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday that he was ready to support efforts to find peace in Ukraine.

Putin met Sheikh Mohammed for informal talks on Sunday that went on until midnight at his residence outside Moscow.

"We continue to make efforts to mediate the exchange of prisoners," Sheikh Mohammed told Putin in the Kremlin, through a translator.

"And I assure you that we will continue to work in this direction. We are ready to make any efforts to resolve crises and in the interests of peace, in the interests of both sides."

Later, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said Russian President Vladimir Putin and United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan discussed the situation in Ukraine in detail during talks.

"The Ukrainian crisis was discussed quite thoroughly during an informal dinner between President Putin and the President of the UAE in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence yesterday," Ushakov said. He added that the situation in the Middle East was discussed during formal talks on Monday in an expanded format, where the foreign ministers of both countries took part

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