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PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin is
in the United Arab Emirates
for a rare visit outside the
former Soviet Union Wednesday, as Russia seeks to reassert
itself on the global stage.
Isolated by the West over the
Ukraine war, Putin is courting
allies in West Asia, where he
will discuss oil, trade and the
Israel-Hamas conflict. Putin
was greeted on the runway by
UAE officials, Russian television showed, before heading to
the presidential palace under
cavalry escort.
“Today, thanks to your posture, our relations have reached
unprecedented levels,” Putin
told UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on
his arrival, praising high trade
between the countries. Later
today Putin is scheduled to
travel to Saudi Arabia to meet
with the kingdom’s de facto
ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
This is only the Russian leader’s third trip outside the
former Soviet Union since he
invaded Ukraine, after visits to
Iran and China. Putin has since
March been wanted for war
crimes by the International
Criminal Court (ICC) that has
accused him of deporting Ukrainian children.
He skipped the BRICS summit in South Africa in August
to avoid causing a “political
show” and missed the in-person flagship G20 summit in
September. But neither the
UAE nor Saudi Arabia have
signed the ICC’s founding treaty, which means they would not
have to arrest him.
“Putin has certainly been
speaking more confidently now
than any time since the war began,” said Nigel Gould-Davies,
senior fellow for Russia and
Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Russia’s defensive lines
largely held against a counteroffensive that Ukraine launched
with billions of dollars worth
of arms from the West, where
aid to Ukraine is under debate.
And Moscow has learned to
adapt to Western sanctions,
with oil revenue rebounding.
Trade and oil will be on the
agenda in the UAE, which a
Kremlin statement said is “Russia’s main economic partner in
the Arab world”.
Bilateral trade between the
two countries reached a record
$9 billion in 2022, the Kremlin
said. Talks will also focus on cooperation in the energy sector,
after Russia — one of 10 OPEC
partners – said it would deepen
voluntary supply cuts.
