UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed affirmed his country's support for the United Nations efforts to reach a political solution in Yemen and stressed during his meeting with the UN envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, on the support of legitimacy in Yemen  that  the  military action is not  the solution to the Yemeni crisis, noticing  that a peaceful solution is the only solution.

Abu Dhabi was the fifth leg of the UN envoy's tour, seeking regional support, to put pressure on the Yemeni parties to reach a settlement.

After Muscat, Riyadh, Oman and Tehran, Ould Sheikh Ahmed met in Abu Dhabi and met with the Foreign Minister of the UAE, who reiterated his country's support for the United Nations efforts to reach a political solution in Yemen and its keenness to help them.