UAE President In Qatar In First Visit Since Blockade
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It is the first state visit since January 2021, when a Saudi-led boycott of Qatar that started in June 2017 finally came to an end.
The United Arab Emirates' president on Monday began his first visit to Qatar since the end of a nearly four-year regional blockade that put ties in the deep freeze.
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan was greeted by Qatar's emir at the airport, officials said, in a trip that coincides with the ongoing football World Cup in Qatar.
It is the first state visit since January 2021, when a Saudi-led boycott of the gas-rich peninsula that started in June 2017 finally came to an end.
The visit, on the invitation of Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, "builds on the existing brotherly relations between the two nations and their people", the UAE's official WAM news agency said.
