(Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin instructed the visiting president of the United Arab Emirates on Sunday that relations between the 2 states amounted to a “strategic partnership” and thanked him for mediation efforts in exchanging prisoners of warfare with Ukraine.
Russian information companies offering an account of a dinner Putin hosted at his residence for President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan indicated the 2 males would talk about violence within the Center East and the warfare in Ukraine in formal talks on Monday.
Companies quoted Putin as saying that the state of affairs within the Center East was “complicated”, with Israel engaged in fight in each Gaza and southern Lebanon.
He thanked the president for “personal relations” which enabled each international locations to unravel issues. He cited specifically the UAE’s assist in arranging prisoner exchanges within the greater than 2-1/2-year-old warfare with Ukraine.
The newest alternate occurred on Friday, with either side bringing residence 95 prisoners of warfare. The UAE stated it was the ninth such mediation effort by which it had participated within the warfare.
