Al Asri Saeed Ahmed Al Dhahri

Al Asri Saeed Ahmed Al Dhahri entered the foreign ministry in 1978. He became acting head of the UAE mission to the United Nations in Geneva in 1987, then ambassador to Bahrain from 1993 to 1999. A business administration graduate of United Arab Emirates University, he subsequently took charge of the Washington embassy, with concurrent accreditation to Mexico. ¹

His American posting lasted from 2000 to 2006. In March 2002, he attended Sheikh Zayed's meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney in Abu Dhabi. The discussions covered counterterrorism and the Palestinian question, while Zayed conveyed opposition to an American military attack on Iraq. ^{1, 2}

Al Dhahri later represented the UAE in Saudi Arabia and at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. He served in Morocco from 2011 to 2016, became assistant national security adviser for international relations in 2017, and returned to the Rabat embassy in 2020. ¹