Saturday, April 11, 2020

UAE has offered to fly stranded Indians: Ambassador to India

Dubai: The UAE has offered to fly stranded Indians and citizens of other countries, who wish to be repatriated, if they test negative for COVID-19, the UAE’s Ambassador to India Dr Ahmed Abdul Rahman Al Banna told Gulf News on Saturday.

Speaking over phone, the envoy said the UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MOFAIC) had sent out a “note verbale” in this regard to the embassies of all the countries in the UAE during the past couple of weeks.
“We have sent the note verbale and all the embassies have been informed including the Indian embassy in the UAE and even the Ministry of External Affairs in India,” Al Banna said.

According to him, the UAE has offered to test those who want to be evacuated.


“We are assuring everybody that we have the best of the facilities, the best of the testing centres and we have tested more than 500,000 people.”

“We are assuring them also of our cooperation to fly those who got stranded in the UAE for some reasons. Some got stuck because of the lockdown and closure of airports in India. Some were visiting the UAE.”

“We are offering our system and making sure that they are good [to fly] by doing all the tests and transport them according to the request of their own government.”

The envoy said those who test positive for COVID-19 will remain in the UAE.
11/04/20 Sajila Saseendran/Gulf News
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