ABU DHABI, Aug 17 (NNN-WAM) – The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, summoned a senior diplomat from the Iranian embassy in Abu Dhabi yesterday, over its president’s speech, following the peace accord between Israel and UAE.
Iran’s charge d’affairs was called to the ministry, and Khalifa Shaheen Al Marri, UAE’s deputy minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation for political affairs, handed him a strong note of protest, against the “threats contained in Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani’s speech, regarding the UAE’s sovereign decisions.”
The ministry considered the speech “unacceptable and inflammatory and had serious implications for security and stability in the Gulf region.”
The note warned of Iran’s responsibility to protect the UAE mission in Tehran and its diplomats, in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, in light of precedents of attacks on foreign diplomatic missions in Iran.
The UAE affirmed its absolute rejection of “the language of inflammatory speeches delivered by the Iranian authorities” following the peace accord reached between the UAE, Israel and the United States, considering this “an interference in its internal affairs and an attack on its sovereignty.”
Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani, on Saturday condemned the move by UAE, to establish diplomatic ties with Israel as “a betrayal of the cause of the Palestinian nation,” Tasnim news agency reported.
