Pak Sahafat – UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed’s written message to his Saudi counterpart Faisal bin Farhan after meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday has raised some speculations about Abu Dhabi’s mediation to resume relations between Riyadh and Damascus.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency’s report from the Saudi “Arab News” newspaper, Bin Farhan received a written letter from his Emirati counterpart Abdullah Bin Zayed on Wednesday.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia announced that the letter was about the bilateral relations between the two countries and the two nations and ways to strengthen and expand it in all fields and in all fields.
“Waleed Al-Khariji, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia, received the letter from bin Zayed during his meeting with “Nahyan bin Saif Al-Nahyan, the ambassador of the UAE in Riyadh, at the court of the Saudi Ministry of Interior.
Bin Zayed met with Assad during his trip to Damascus on Wednesday and according to the report of the official Syrian news agency; SANA, in this meeting, the two countries’ distinct relations were discussed and exchanged.
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SANA also reported that Bashar Assad and Abdullah bin Zayed discussed the existing cooperation between the two countries in various fields and the development of commercial and economic relations between Abu Dhabi and Damascus.
On March 27, 1400, Assad entered the United Arab Emirates on an official visit and met with a number of officials of the country after cutting ties with the Persian Gulf countries for a long time.
Assad’s visit to the UAE took place a few months after Abdullah bin Zayed, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the UAE, visited Damascus in November of the same year.
At that time, Abdullah bin Zayed, while traveling to Damascus and meeting with Assad, on the sidelines of this meeting, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed presented Assad with an invitation to visit the UAE.
After the start of the Syrian crisis in March 2009, the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf and other Western-Arab countries closed the doors of their embassies in Damascus, the UAE was also part of this category, but Abu Dhabi reopened its embassy in Damascus on January 6, 2018.