UAE affirms keenness to boost relations with Iran

[Arian]

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has underlined the importance of improving relations with Iran for the common interests of both countries and the promotion of stability in the region.

During a cabinet meeting chaired by Vice President, Prime Minister and ruler of the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum on Sunday, Emirati cabinet members affirmed Abu Dhabi’s keenness to maintain good neighborly relations with Tehran, Emirates news agency (WAM) reported.

They also stressed the importance of settling the dispute over Abu Musa, the Greater Tunb and the Lesser Tunb islands through direct bilateral negotiations or the International Court of Justice.

The UAE statesmen also emphasized that a balanced peaceful approach in dealing with the issue of the islands is essential to bolstering future relations with Iran, and overcoming issues that hinder the development of ties between regional nations.

The development comes following Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to the island of Abu Musa on April 11 as part of his tour of the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan. The visit drew criticism from the UAE and the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council.

On the same day, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan criticized the visit as a "violation of UAE sovereignty over its territories."

The islands of the Greater Tunb, the Lesser Tunb, and Abu Musa have historically been part of Iran, the proof of which can be found and corroborated by countless historical, legal, and geographical documents in Iran and other parts of the world.

However, the United Arab Emirates has repeatedly laid baseless claims to the islands.

PressTV - UAE affirms keenness to boost relations with Iran

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

Iran renews islands' claims but affirms keenness on good ties with GCC
Kuwait News Agency - 20 April, 2012

Iran's permanent mission at the United Nations has again affirmed Tehran would remain adamant on its claims on three Gulf islands but voiced keenness on maintaining good neighborliness ties with states of the Gulf region, namely the UAE.

Ambassador Eshagh Alhabib, the Iranian envoy to the Security Council, also affirmed that holding constructive discussions with the UAE would result in improving the bilateral ties in various sectors.

Alhabib in his address to the chairman, Susan Rice, was responding, late on Thursday, to two letters addressed by the Saudi delegate to the UN on April 13th, regarding the recent visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the Iranian-occupied UAE island of Abu Moussa, and "other issues" related to it and two other UAE islands, Greater and Lesser Tunbs, that have been also occupied by the Iranians.

Although the Iranian envoy claimed anew that these islands "were integral and eternal parts of the Iranian territory," he stressed "importance of the brotherly and good-neighborly relations that exist between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the neighboring countries" in the Gulf.

Tehran continues to believe that constructive negotiations between the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the relevant officials of the UAE will lead to the further expansion of relations in various fields and will help to remove any misunderstanding that may arise with regard to implementation of the arrangements emanating from the documents exchanged in 1971 on this issue, he stated.

He also argued that Ahmadinejad's visit "and all other measures taken by the Iranian authorities on those Iranian islands are fully based on the sovereign rights of Iran and the principle of its territorial integrity." UAE the other member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have condemned in strongest terms the Iranian president recent visit to Abu Moussa.

The GCC has stood firmly alongside Abu Dhabi in its quest to end Iran's occupation of the three islands in the Gulf.

 

[PMA.]

When both countries are affirming their keenness to boost relations, that's a way forward. Good for all.

 

[Banu Umayyah]

Sometimes they act tough. Sometimes they want friendly relations.
Someone has to supervise their medication dosage.

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

Sometimes they act tough. Sometimes they want friendly relations.
Someone has to supervise their medication dosage.

HAHA
I agree, they have such a very weird and strange logic.

 

[Arian]

Sometimes they act tough. Sometimes they want friendly relations.
Someone has to supervise their medication dosage.

LOL. Say that to your Arab brothers in the UAE.

By the way, Iran hasn't renewed its claims, Iran doesn't need to claim, we're administrating the Islands and controlling them, why do we need to renew 'claim' over something which is under our control ATM?

 

[kollang]

HAHA
I agree, they have such a very weird and strange logic.

HEHE OOSK!
plz dont talk about logic.ok?
you are in a land which half of it is under control of Israel and also your dear sunni brothers are under their pressure.and in the same time you are in bed with them.?!
i love your logic!

 

[PERSIAN GOD KING]

This is good to fool them.