GERMANY: SHEIKH HAMDAN BIN ZAYED AL-NAHAYAN OF THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES VISITS BERLIN, MEETS CHANCELLOR GERHARD SCHROEDER ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST SITUATION.

Record ID: 338219

  • Title: GERMANY: SHEIKH HAMDAN BIN ZAYED AL-NAHAYAN OF THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES VISITS BERLIN, MEETS CHANCELLOR GERHARD SCHROEDER ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST SITUATION.
  • Date: 27th April 2004
  • Summary: (U7) BERLIN, GERMANY (APRIL 27, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. GERMAN CHANCELLOR GERHARD SCHROEDER AND SHEIKH HAMDAN BIN ZAYED AL-NAHAYAN, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES FOREIGN MINISTER AND DEPUTY WS/MV/TRACK: PRIME MINISTER WALKING ON RED CARPET DURING MILITARY HONOURS. (2 SHOTS) 0.08 2. MV: HONOUR GUARD WATCHING AND ONE OFFICER SALUTING. 0.11 3. TRACK: SHEIKH
  • Embargoed: 12th May 2004 13:00
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  • Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVAAWRN754O4L0UXDBGMB7OFD8AM
  • Story Text: The United Arab Emirates has asked the Middle East
    quartet to "more than double its efforts to reach a just
    solution" in the Middle East crisis.



    The United Arab Emirates has asked the Middle East
    quartet (the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and
    the United States) on Tuesday (April 27) to help in the
    Middle East crisis.

    "Peace in our region is not just important for our
    region but for the entire world," Foreign minister and
    Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed al-Nahayan
    told reporters in Berlin.

    "The Middle East issue is therefore of big importance
    and we ask Germany to increase its contribution and we hope
    that the quartet will more than double its efforts to reach
    a just solution," Hamdan said after a meeting with German
    Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.

    Schroeder refused to answer questions from reporters after
    the short news conference, saying that some one
    hundred businessmen were waiting for him and Sheikh Hamdan.

    Schroeder said he welcomed the United Arab Emirates
    involvement in Volkswagen (VW), referring to a visit next
    Thursday by Sheikh Hamdan to VW headquarters in the
    northern German city of Wolfsburg.

    "We fully welcome the Emirates involvement in
    Volkswagen in Germany. This is an example how both sides
    can benefit from economic relations", Schroeder said.

    Sources in the oil-rich Arab nation said last Friday
    (April 23) that the Deputy Prime Minister was likely to
    sign a deal to buy a stake in VW during his visit to
    Germany.

    VW said the primary reason for the visit was to
    complete an agreement for Abu Dhabis state-owned Mubadala
    Development Company to purchase Leaseplan, Europe's leading
    car fleet management firm, along with Volkswagen and a
    Saudi partner, from Dutch bank ABN Amro for a total of two
    billion euros (2.38 billion U.S. dollars).


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