Days after inviting Bashar al-Assad, the President of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, sent an official invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog to participate in the climate summit to be held in Dubai this November.
Yesterday, Monday, the UAE Embassy in Israel said that Ambassador Mohammed Mahmoud Al Haja met with Netanyahu and Herzog and presented them with an official invitation to participate in the climate conference.
The embassy added, in a tweet it published in Hebrew on Twitter, that Al Haja delivered the invitation on behalf of the President of the United Arab Emirates Mohammed bin Zayed and his deputy, Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
On May 15, the news agency of the Syrian regime, SANA, reported that Bashar al-Assad, during his meeting with the director of the embassy of the United Arab Emirates, Abdul Hakim al-Nuaimi, received an invitation from bin Zayed to participate in the conference.
A day after receiving the invitation from the Israeli side, there was no response from Bashar al-Assad's regime regarding his participation in the conference.
COP28 will be held in Dubai Expo City from November 30 to December 12, 2023.
It is worth noting that Netanyahu planned to visit the United Arab Emirates shortly after his government took the constitutional oath, at the beginning of this year, but the visit was postponed to an unknown date, after the Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gabir entered the Temple Mount in the first week of the government's tenure.