UAE's Abdullah bin Zayed visits US, days after meeting Assad
Emirati Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed will meet with US Secretary of State Blinken at the State Department on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON — Two days after meeting with embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, the United Arab Emirates’ chief diplomat will hold talks with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington.
UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed will meet with Blinken on Tuesday afternoon, according to the State Department. The pair are expected to discuss the humanitarian response to the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria last week, killing more than 36,000 people.
On Sunday, the senior UAE official arrived in Syria and met with Assad. He was the first senior Gulf official to visit the war-torn country since the Feb. 6 quake.
In recent days, the UAE has sent aid to both Turkey and Syria, where the earthquake’s combined death toll has surpassed 36,000. On Monday, planes from the UAE delivered food, tents and blankets to the Damascus and Latakia airports.
