MOHAMMAD RECEIVES SAUDI CROWN PRINCE
FRATERNAL RELATIONS BETWEEN THE NATIONS DISCUSSED DURING VISIT
His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, yesterday received Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman at Zabeel Palace. They discussed regional developments.
Saudi Arabia’s visiting Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Bin Abdul Aziz was received by His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, VicePresident and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, at Zabeel Palace yesterday.
Prince Mohammad Bin Salman was then later taken on a tour of the Dubai Expo 2020 site by Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid, Dubai Crown Prince and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council.
Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid and Prince Mohammad Bin Salman exchanged views on a number of topics related to fraternal relations between the UAE and Saudi Arabia in various fields, and explored ways to develop them for the benefit of their peoples and the entire region.
Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid welcomed Prince Mohammad Bin Salman and reiterated the strategic and inseparable relations between the two fraternal nations, in the presence of Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad and Shaikh Maktoum Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai’s Deputy Ruler.
Shaikh Mohammad hosted a lunch banquet in honour of the country’s guest and his accompanying delegation. The banquet was attended by a number of shaikhs, ministers, dignitaries of the country and senior officials from the two countries. Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad later took Prince Mohammad Bin Salman on a tour of the site of Expo 2020 Dubai, which will take place from October 20, 2020, to April 10, 2021, with the participation of 195 countries.
Keen interest
Shaikh Hamdan said that Prince Mohammad’s visit to the Expo 2020 site exemplifies Saudi Arabia’s keen interest in supporting this major global event. The kingdom is participating with a large-scale pavilion, the expo’s second largest pavilion after the UAE.
On the first leg of their tour, Shaikh Hamdan and Prince Mohammad viewed the expo’s prototype, which features the components and pavilions within the expo event, which will be held for the first time in the Middle East in the events 168-year history.
They stopped at Al Wasl Plaza, one of expo’s main landmarks, and then visited the UAE pavilion, which is designed in the shape of a falcon in flight, forming a major attraction at Expo 2020 Dubai. Shaikh Hamdan and Prince Mohammad visited the Saudi pavilion, designed to highlight the kingdom’s message to the world and its openness for a better future for all. They watched a short video showing the stages of construction of the
Saudi pavilion that is set to be an attraction at the grand global event, which is projected to attract more than 25 million visitors from all over the world. At the end of the visit, Shaikh Hamdan and Prince Mohammad took commemorative pictures at the site.
These meetings occurred at the end of Prince Mohammad’s two-day visit to the UAE, which involved high level talks between the countries and the announcement of several joint initiatives and Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs).