Chairman of the Federal National Council of the UAE Saqr Ben Gobbash Saeed Gobbash said that Russia rightly counts on reciprocity in friendly relations with the Arab world. The Wall Street Journal reported that U.S.

officials had warned UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan that close cooperation with Russia and China would jeopardize relations with America.Columnist Kenneth Raposa, in his material for Forbes, expressed the opinion that the UAE may be next in line to fall out of the geopolitical orbit of the United States.