Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, Turki bin Abdullah Al-Dakhil, said that the Saudi-UAE relations are based on common social and political foundations, as evidenced by the direct understandings that have characterized the relations between the two countries since the early years of the founding of the Union and the establishment of the United Arab Emirates.
Al-Dakhil said during a lecture at the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research titled "Saudi-UAE relations in the light of the common challenges" that "the current political consensus between the two countries has crystallized since the sixties of the last century and later strengthened on more than one occasion, To support the Arab Republic of Egypt in the 1973 war, the 1991 liberation war, and the common position of the events of 2011 in some Arab countries. And further strengthened the participation of the two countries in the storm Hazm to support legitimacy in the brotherly Yemen ».
He pointed out that the relations between the two parties also culminated in the announcement of the Saudi-UAE Coordination Council.
Al-Dakhil stressed that the Arab Stability Alliance, led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, has been translated through their involvement in the "crisis of firmness" and strengthened the stability of the idea of the state and the preservation of what remains of it.
On the economic level, Al-Dakhil disclosed that Saudi investments in the UAE exceeded 35 billion dirhams, and the number of UAE projects in Saudi Arabia reached 114, compared with 206 Saudi projects in the UAE.
Today there are around 23,000 Saudi companies and 66 commercial agencies in the UAE, while Saudi Arabia has similar projects.
On the challenges faced by countries, Al-Dakhil said that they can not be viewed in isolation from the policies of some supporters of division in the Arab world, and extremism in the Middle East and beyond, and the policies of some external parties are the motivation to stir sectarian strife in Yemen, Syria and Iraq, Movements of political Islam, both Sunni and Shiite, to impose a state of instability and political vacuum in the region, as a prelude to external intervention.
He spoke about the confrontation between the UAE and Saudi Arabia at the risk of terrorist organizations, many of whose publications were devoted to criticizing the policies of combating extremism and terrorism in both countries, criticizing the opening policies adopted by the two countries, attacking the idea of the state and the symbols of Arab moderation using lies and immoral tools. Requires, according to the lecturer, a continuous media and awareness vigilance to re-explain the perceptions and identify the moral bases for the restoration of religion from its abductors, and to protect it from the hands of the abusers and its exploiters, protect the idea of the state and its institutions, Directed by foreign hands, and strengthen the identity of the citizen, and secure the future of generations to come in the competition through the consolidation of modern system of moral values for tolerance and openness, without the influence of the basic social values.
Al-Dakhil added that the Saudi-UAE awareness has realized that the organization of Da'ash is an extension of extremism sponsored by terrorist organizations in order to serve its political objectives. Therefore, the two countries participated in the international coalition against terrorism with high combat efficiency. They also supported counterterrorism efforts in the African Sahel and established, in cooperation with America, the World Center for the Fight against Extremist Ideology. When Saudi Arabia, under the leadership of Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, headed towards the establishment of the Islamic Military Coalition against Terrorism, the UAE was one of the first countries to present strongly In this alliance.