Qatar-UAE 'fraternal' meetings offer sign of growing rapprochement
Although immediate economic partnerships or deals from the UAE and Qatar meetings have yet to be announced, the latest meetings are still a sign that the two Gulf nations are headed into a thaw after years of boycott.
DUBAI — This week’s Doha meeting with the emir of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates’ national security adviser and deputy prime minister is yet another sign of the gradually more frequent meetings between Qatari and Emirati high-level officials, demonstrating a normalization in relations after years of a political rift.
Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received the United Arab Emirates’ national security adviser Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed and Deputy Prime Minister of the Presidential Court Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed on Wednesday to discuss “fraternal relations” and how to strengthen various domains of mutual interest, reported the UAE’s government news agency WAM.
Although immediate economic partnerships or deals secured at these meetings have not been announced, the meeting symbolizes that the two Gulf nations are headed in that direction.
Since the UAE and Qatar reconciled after nearly four years of rift in January 2021, expressions of camaraderie were conveyed in the form of shared national day celebrations in December, a month both countries commemorate their national independence.
