Dubai: His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, yesterday received Britain’s Duke of Westminster.
Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, and Shaikh Maktoum Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, were present.
Shaikh Mohammad and the Duke had cordial discussions on cultural and tourist relations between the UAE and UK in general and the cities of Dubai and Westminster in particular.
The Duke congratulated Shaikh Mohammad on the UAE winning the bid to host the World Expo 2020 in Dubai, saying that Dubai deserved the win given its prominent international profile.
He also praised the progress of the UAE under its wise leadership which, he said, had provided its people with all amenities of comfortable life and happiness, and had built cultural, economic and humanitarian bridges with other nations of the world.
