Senior officials from the United Kingdom, the European Union and the United States are visiting the United Arab Emirates this week to discuss “effective implementation” of Ukraine sanctions on Russia, the British Foreign Office confirmed on Tuesday.
“Senior officials from the EU, UK and US are visiting the UAE this week to discuss the effective implementation of our sanctions," a spokesperson at the British Foreign Office told Al-Monitor. "This forms part of our routine diplomatic engagement with a range of third-country partners to discuss this matter."
Vedant Patel, deputy spokesperson for the US State Department, also confirmed the visit on Tuesday when speaking to reporters, saying officials will "discuss how collectively we can continue to hold the Russian Federation accountable for its war of aggression in Ukraine."
The confirmation comes hours after The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed US and European officials, reported on Monday that senior US, British and EU officials planned to jointly press UAE counterparts to halt shipments of goods to Russia that could help Moscow in its war against Ukraine. Western nations have sanctioned Russia in response to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine that it launched in February 2022.
