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His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, accorded a ceremonial welcome to Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, at the Presidential Palace on Tuesday.

Cabinet ministers, ambassadors based in the UAE, dignitaries and top government officials were also present.

The two East African nations recently ended their two-decades-long animosity by accepting a U.N. brokered peace deal that has led to the opening of the borders, re-establishing of diplomatic and economic ties.