HE Omar Saif Ghobash also said the country is open to rapprochement with Iran, but that it needed to be conditional and participatory.
Omar Saif Ghobash, Assistant Minister for Culture and Public Diplomacy, said the UAE has managed to strike the balance between lives and livelihoods, when it comes to managing the economy during the pandemic.
He also mentioned that the economy could not be put on hold, as efforts to tackle coronavirus and roll out the vaccine continued.
“Obviously there are people who are still getting sick, and unfortunately passing away,” Mr Ghobash, a former ambassador to France and Russia, told CNBC Middle East.
“But overall we think that we’ve managed to find the balance between health and safety on the one hand, and economic viability on the other hand.”
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