President: Iran-UAE won't let hegemonic powers hatch plots

Tehran, July 9, IRNA – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received United Arab Emirates new ambassador to Tehran on Saturday.


In the meeting, Ahmadinejad called mutual relations brotherly and underlined that bilateral ties should be set in a brotherly manner adding that the two countries, by increasing their cooperation and strengthening their brotherly relations, shouldn't let hegemonic powers hatch plots in this region.

According to the report of Presidential Office website, President Ahmadinejad in meeting with the new ambassador here on Saturday afternoon, underlined necessity of expansion of cooperation in all fields between Iran and the United Arab Emirates.

He stressed that expansion of ties between the two countries could be a suitable model to show the depth of brotherhood of regional governments and neutralize plots of enemies.

Countries of the region have all possibilities for progress, Ahmadinejad said, but enemies create obstacles in the way of expansion of brotherly relations and progress of the countries.

He continued that the US and its allies, as enemies of the nations of the region, should leave the area and people and governments of the region solve their own problems by themselves.

After submitting his credentials to President Ahmadinejad, the new UAE Ambassador Seif Muhammad bin Obeid said that his country intends to increase cooperation with Iran in all fields and added that during his tenure he will do his utmost to remove some past mistrust between the two countries.

He went on to say, 'I will try to pave the ground for taking big steps toward increasing bilateral cooperation, because the UAE intends to deepen and consolidate its ties with Iran.'/end