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'Very excited, positive': UAE officials expect Trump's return to boost economic ties with US

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Published: Wed 22 Jan 2025, 12:06 PM

Updated: Wed 22 Jan 2025, 8:50 PM

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• Waheed Abbas

UAE's Minister of Economy, Abdullah bin Touq Al Marri (L) at Davos 2025. Photo: WAM

UAE officials hope Donald Trump's return to power will boost economic ties between the Emirates,
the GCC, and the United States.
"I am very excited and very positive. You're talking to a tribesman and a man from the desert. Fifty
years ago, in the UAE, we had nothing: no Burj Khalifa, no Emirates airline, and no DP World. Today,
we live in a sky city, 95 per cent of our food is imported, and we desalinate the sea to drink water.
We see opportunities in everything to transform our world," Abdullah Bin Touq Al Marri, UAE Minister

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