The UAE and the US this week emphasized areas of current and future collaboration, releasing a joint statement with a focus on business, climate, foreign policy and space exploration.
This came during the first visit by a UAE President to the White House, with President Sheikh Mohamed holding talks with US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday.
The UAE and the US reaffirmed their strong commitment to collaborate on sustainability and climate resilience through initiatives including the Partnership to Accelerate Clean Energy. Both nations said they were committed to investing together in Africa and working to end energy poverty across sub-Saharan Africa.
Sheikh Mohamed and Mr Biden also discussed progress on the landmark India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, launched at last year’s G20 Summit in New Delhi.
The corridor – which connects India to Europe by ship-to-rail connections through the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel and Greece – will generate economic growth and incentivise new investments, as well as generating jobs, reducing costs and lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
The UAE and US are set to deepen their collaboration in space exploration. Both countries have been long-standing partners in the space sector, with four Emirati astronauts having undergone training at Nasa.
Universities in the US also worked with Emirati engineers to develop the Hope probe, which has been sending back data from Mars’s orbit since 2021.
During their meeting, Sheikh Mohamed and Mr Biden discussed the agreement between Nasa and the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in January, under which the UAE would provide a crucial part of Nasa’s planned Gateway, a station to orbit the Moon.
MBRSC engineers will develop an airlock in exchange for a place for an Emirati astronaut on a future flight to the station. The deal was signed a few months after Dr Sultan Al Neyadi, now Minister of State of Youth Affairs, carried out a long-term mission on the International Space Station, travelling on a SpaceX rocket launched from a Florida spaceport. The mission achieved several milestones, including the first spacewalk carried out by an Arab astronaut.
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