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Emirati ambassador: West Bank annexation will make region ‘unstable’

The United Arab Emirates Ambassador to the United States Yousef Al-Otaiba discussed Israel's annexation plans on Al-Monitor's podcast following criticisms by another Emirati diplomat.
NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES - 2018/09/25: Yousef Al Otaiba, Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United States, at the United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) 2018 Iran Summit in New York City. (Photo by Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

In an interview with Al-Monitor published yesterday, the United Arab Emirates’ Ambassador to the United States Yousef Al-Otaiba said that Israel’s plans to annex parts of the West Bank will make the region more “unstable.” 

“We think that kind of decision will only take matters and make what is an unstable region at the moment even more unstable,” Otaiba told Andrew Parasiliti in the On the Middle East podcast.

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