Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visited the United Arab Emirates on Friday, the first for an Arab country since the outbreak of the Syrian conflict in 2011, according to what the official Emirates News Agency announced. Brotherly relations” between the two countries and efforts to “consolidate security, stability and peace in the Arab region and the Middle East,” according to what it reported. 

This meeting is the latest sign of the warming of relations between Syria and the UAE, which severed ties with Damascus in February 2012. The agency quoted Sheikh Mohammed as saying that he hopes it will be "a light of good, peace and stability for brotherly Syria and the entire region."

This meeting is the latest sign of the warming of relations between Syria and the UAE, which severed ties with Damascus in February 2012. The agency quoted Sheikh Mohammed as saying that he hopes it will be "a light of good, peace and stability for brotherly Syria and the entire region."

I am certain that this visit will continue the great successes and achievements in sisterly Syria, and will contribute to building the new Syria.