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Following the passing of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who passed away on Friday May 13, at 73, President of the United Arab Emirates yesterday, the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron, formally conveyed his sympathy through condolences, in a tweet written in arabic, yesterday.
In his message of sympathy the President wrote: "The death of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan mourns Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates.My thoughts are with his brother the Crown Prince @MohamedBinZayed, to all his family and to the people of the UAE.He was respected by all for the values of peace, openness and dialogue that he embodied". The French president also addressed his "support to his brother, newly elected President of the United Arab Emirates, as well as to the Emirati people". Today, President Macron traveled today May 15, to the capital of UAE, Abu Dhabi, to attend the official funerals, and also to pay his condolences, following the death of the President of the UAE and ruler of Abu Dhabi, His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. and met with the new ruler HH Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed. They have recalled the strong ties of friendship between the two nations, France and UAE, and affirmed "their desire to strengthen the strategic partnership, already very advanced, between their two countries, on the occasion of their meeting", from this beginning of the afternoon, May 15 in Abu Dhabi ” For the French head of state, this is the first trip abroad since his re-election on April 24, and he is the first Western leader to go to Abu Dhabi, to the funeral of the death of the ruler of the United Arab Emirates.
