The Emirati Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed and the Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, accompanied by German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, visited today, Tuesday, the Holocaust memorial in the center of the German capital Berlin.
Bin Zayed wrote in the register of the official guests at the memorial headquarters, a salute to the victims of the Holocaust, in which he stated that the place reminds the victims of extremism and hatred and noble human values calling for coexistence and tolerance, which is what his country was founded on, as he put it.
He concluded his guest book with a phrase that it would never happen again (Never Again).
In pictures published by news agencies and social networking sites for the first public meeting between the two ministers, bin Zayed and Ashkenazi appeared touching the elbows to avoid shaking hands due to the spread of the Corona virus.
The Israeli sources indicated that the Emirati minister is the first official Arab figure of this level to visit the Holocaust memorial.
According to Israeli media sources, the visit to the monument came at the initiative of the Emirati Foreign Minister, who met Ashkenazi to discuss ways to develop relations between the UAE and Israel after signing the normalization agreement between them.
The Emirati-Israeli meeting in Berlin comes as a consolidation of normalization between Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv, which was translated into an agreement signed in the middle of last month at the White House, and later the two parties signed cooperation agreements in several areas, including the security field.