UAE- Abdullah bin Zayed receives condolences from Arab counterparts

9/6/2015 1:28:36 AM

(MENAFN- Emirates News Agency (WAM))

ABU DHABI 5th September 2015 (WAM) -- H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foreign Minister today received telephone calls from a number of his Arab counterparts during which they offered their heartfelt condolences on the martyrdom of a number of Emirati servicemen participating in the Arab Coalition's 'Operation Restoring Hope' in Yemen.

Sheikh Abdullah received condolences over the phone from Sheikh Sabah Khalid Al Hamad Al-Sabah First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed Al Khalifa Foreign Minister of Bahrain Adel al-Jubeir Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia Sameh Shoukry Foreign Minister of Egypt Nasser Judeh Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Jordan Gebran Bassil Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lebanon and Hamadi Ould Hamadi Foreign Minister of Mauritania.

The Arab foreign ministers expressed their deep condolences and sympathies to the leadership government and people of the UAE as well as to families of martyrs and prayed to the Almighty Allah to grant the martyrs' souls rest in Paradise and bestow patience and solace on their families.

For his part Sheikh Abdullah thanked his Arab counterparts for their sincere fraternal feelings and for their solidarity with the UAE in this ordeal. Sheikh Abdullah reiterated the UAE's firm support for legitimacy in Yemen.

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