Riyadh: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Waleed bin Abdulkarim has held separate meetings at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs headquarters in Riyadh.

One meeting was with the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates, Matar Salem Al-Dhaheri, while the other was with the German Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, Heiko Nitschke.During his meeting with Al-Dhaheri, both sides reviewed the longstanding and fraternal relations between Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

Discussions focused on topics of mutual interest between the two nations.In a separate meeting with Nitschke, various aspects of Saudi-German relations were discussed, in addition to developments taking place in the Horn of Africa region.

The German envoy's meeting was attended by Saqr Al-Qurashi, Director General of the African Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Michael Kindsgrab, the German Ambassador to the Kingdom.