Egypt is the Arab world’s important strategic axis, a world that is confident in its abilities and is undetectable to regional interventions in its affairs, said His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, during a meeting with the Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry. This meeting represents the strategic basis for the relationship with the Arab Republic of Egypt, during the current and coming period. This should be the strategic principle for any Arab movements during the foreseeable future in order to safeguard Arab national security, and importantly national security of the Gulf.
The importance of these statements emerges through several factors. Most importantly, to put the record straight at a time where a lot of biased people, extremist organizations, and other parties are working to ruin the Arab relations and to deconstruct the alliance relations between pillar countries of common Arab action in the current times. Thus, these statements came to remove doubt and ambiguities, and to emphasize that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) still uphold its strategic view to the relationship with Egypt and also that these relationships are still the corner stone of the strategic thought in the UAE. The second factor is that these important statements confirm the convergence of the Egyptian-Emirati views on Arabic national security substrates, and also that intervention in the affairs of Arabic countries from regional powers is perfectly inacceptable, especially from the side of Iran. These statements also assert that the mutual understanding of Arabic nations is based on the rejection of any interference in the affairs of its states. Therefore, these statements reflect respect to the Egyptian position against Iran’s regional role.
There are speculations and media allegations about new regional alliances. Some parts claim that Egypt has made alliance with Iran and Russia against the Gulf Cooperation Council, while others believe that Egypt has sacrificed its relations with this or that party, and the third group alleged that Egypt is deeply concerned with its own economic problems. The aim of these allegations and analyses is mostly to destroy the relationships between Egypt and the Gulf cooperation Council. Therefore, the statements of his highness involve an intelligent analysis of the strategic landscape and how to deal with it, by ignoring the propaganda that shows hostility against Arab parties, and which is assisted by forces and parties seeking to weaken the Arab nations.
The position of the UAE, led by His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan may God protect him, about Egypt is obvious. But from time to time, rumors and allegations target these constant relations, as well as the exploitation of analyses intended to raise doubts among people about the changes that occur in the course of deep historical ties. Then these statements came to remove any doubts about the path of the Egyptian relations with the UAE.
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s comments are also a message to all Arab countries, which are seeking security and stability for their people, that they need solidarity and cooperation to overcome the challenges of the current stage. These statements also call to the awareness about the danger that environs Arab countries and which is caused by the interventions and expansionist ambitions that are religiously covered. This danger threatens to damage the stability of our region which suffered from the ugly regional sectarian ambitions.
These statements gain huge importance given the current international circumstances, which look very complicated and difficult to predict. The future of some Arab countries is subject to any kind of scenarios, especially Syria. Therefore it is necessary to establish the foundations of the Arab actions at this stage, amongst which rejection of any external interventions is the core. This should be entitled under the logo: “The Arab world does not accept interventions”, which perfectly reveals the content and hidden gem of the Arab nations strategy. This is a position that Arabs were seeking, especially from someone like His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who has proven in many occasions his strong attention to the interests of the Arab people’s gains, security and stability. Thus, he now maintains that position by upholding Egypt as a strategic depth to the Arab national security.
