Giorgia Meloni and Antonio Tajani traveled in the cars of the President of the United Arab Emirates and his brother, the Foreign Minister , who drove their SUVs from the presidential palace to the restaurant , where lunch lasted two and a half hours.
These are the details that lead the Italian delegation to say that the bilateral meeting in Abu Dhabi was positive, "even beyond expectations" , as the Prime Minister said.
Italy-United Arab Emirates summit, lunch at Zuma
At the end of the meeting at the presidential palace, Meloni got into a BMW SUV alongside the President of the United Arab Emirates , Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan . The other car was driven by Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan , while Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi sat in the back seat.
The official lunch of the delegations was held at Zuma , a Japanese restaurant, where the Emirati president also introduced his eldest daughter to his guests.
Tajani gives Juventus shirt to Sheikh: the joke about the defeat against Napoli
“These are signs of hospitality, friendship, consideration and affection beyond the ordinary,” underlined Tajani , who gave his counterpart a personalized Juventus shirt , a shared football passion.
"We talked about our team, and he told me he still had the wounds on his arms from the defeat to Napoli ," said the Foreign Minister, himself still smarting from the 5-1 defeat in mid-January . " I told him, I was right there at the stadium..."
