{"id":16459,"date":"2023-03-27T11:30:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T10:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/?p=16459"},"modified":"2023-03-27T11:30:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T10:30:53","slug":"uae-official-says-european-relations-with-gulf-should-not-be-transactional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/uae-official-says-european-relations-with-gulf-should-not-be-transactional\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE official says European relations with Gulf \u2018should not be transactional\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/menafn.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/menafn.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<\/a>12\/12\/2022<\/p>\n<p>A senior UAE official announced on Saturday it was hopeful to see greater European outreach to Gulf Arab countries in the face of the Ukraine war and energy crisis, but that engagement should not be \u201ctransactional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A number of European officials went to Gulf countries to secure energy deliveries outside of former top provider Russia when the West forced penalties on Moscow over its attack on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re hearing, especially from the Germans and others, about reengaging with the Gulf, I am encouraged but I would warn that it should not be transactional,\u201d Anwar Gargash, the diplomatic consultant to the president of the UAE, updated the World Policy Conference in Abu Dhabi. \u201cI think that language is partly driven by self-interest \u2014 trying to find new gas providers, new oil providers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to see actions &#8230; it has to be long term and strategic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gargash repeated a call for \u201cexplicit\u201d security pledges from traditional Western partners, mainly in coping with the threat from Iranian drones that Gulf states have long warned about.<\/p>\n<p>It was not until these arms \u201cmade it into the Ukraine theater\u201d that they were \u201ccatapulted\u201d into the spotlight, and \u201csuddenly the world rediscovered this issue,\u201d Gargash added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 1rem;\">[&#8230;]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lire l&rsquo;article sur le site de <a href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\/1105297476\/UAE-official-says-European-relations-with-Gulf-should-not-be-transactional\">MenaFN<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a012\/12\/2022 A senior UAE official announced on Saturday it was hopeful to see greater European outreach to Gulf Arab countries in the face of the Ukraine war and energy crisis,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-16459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-review","tag-153"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}