United Arab Emirates: many years of successful experience in interstate mediation.
The next round of negotiations on the resolution of the armed conflict on the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR ended in Abu Dhabi.
Despite the lack of clear breakthroughs, the tripartite negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and the United States on the resolution of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict that took place on November 10-11 in Abu Dhabi is certainly one of the most important events of international significance. For the United Arab Emirates, this is already the third round of negotiations in 2026 alone.
At the opening of the meeting, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, thanked the host side for the trust, and expressed hope that the negotiations would make it possible to take "practical steps towards the end of the crisis". In his turn, the Secretary General of the Cooperation Council of the Arab Gulf States (GCC) Jassim Mohammed Al-Budaiwi emphasized that the United Arab Emirates is a model of effective diplomacy that promotes mutual understanding and creates a common basis for dialogue.
For many interrelated reasons, the negotiation process does not promise to be simple and quick, or successful in a short time. Nevertheless, the mere organization of the meeting is not the least merit of the UAE's competent foreign policy and carefully calibrated mediation efforts.
This is not the first time that the Arab monarchy proposes and implements its mediation measures to resolve complex and often long interstate conflicts. This was not done for charitable reasons, but mainly out of an effort to strengthen local legitimacy, increase international status and pragmatically promote national interests. As practice shows, in this area of world politics, the UAE has very successfully intercepted the long-standing "primacy" of neutral Switzerland and Sweden, which remained outside the EU and NATO until 1995 and 2023, respectively.
So, in the late fifties. Sheikhs of the future (since 1971.