He added that Turkey and Greece should sit at the negotiating table to resolve differences instead of entering complex alliances in the political scene in the region.
He pointed out that the contact between Egypt and the UAE is an attempt to reach an appropriate strategy that corresponds to its various orientations, as well as confirming their presence in the forces in the region's alliances.
This came within his interventions in the episode of the program "Beyond the News" (5/9/2020), which asked about the contents and backgrounds of the position taken by Egypt and the UAE regarding the current tension in the eastern Mediterranean between Turkey and Greece, and discussions were held between Cairo and Abu Dhabi regarding it?
For his part, Professor of International Relations at the University of Geneva Hosni Abidi said that this stage in the region is characterized by building alliances, especially in light of the continuous changes that need new strategies, considering that the talks between Egypt and the UAE came within the framework of coordinating a strategy to confront military friction between Turkey and Greece, before His transformation into a direct confrontation.
And he considered that in the absence of a strict stance by European countries to tighten their support for Greece, the Emirati rush and the Egyptian hesitation - as he described it - to intervene against Turkish expansion in the region floats on the scene.
On the other hand, Magdy Shendi, editor-in-chief of Al-Mashhad newspaper, said that the background to the phone call between the Egyptian and Emirati foreign ministers is that the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean has two main nodes: the first is the Turkish-Greek dispute over Cyprus and its coasts and how to divide its territorial waters, and then the Libyan file in which it interfered. Countries in the region, directly or indirectly.
He added that the maritime border demarcation agreement between Egypt and Greece closed the road in the face of Turkey and provoked it, as evidenced by what Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkey is capable of tearing apart all maps in the region.
It is noteworthy that the Emirates News Agency reported that the Emirati Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry discussed, during a phone call, the situation in the eastern Mediterranean region, which is witnessing escalating tension between Turkey and Greece, regarding which regional and international positions diverged.