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Gallery: France’s foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian visits Louvre Abu Dhabi

French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian meets with Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and launched a new exhibit at the Louvre Abu Dhabi. The minister then continued his tour to visit French language schools in Abu Dhabi, Masdar City and Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian (R) is welcomed by the Emirati Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, Noura al-Kaabi, during a visit to the Louvre Abu Dhabi museum on September 4, 2018.

His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and Jean-Yves Le Drian, French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, have explored ways of consolidating ties of friendship and strategic cooperation across cultural, educational and political domains.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian (2nd R), and the Emirati Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, Noura al-Kaabi (to his Left), listen to a speech at the Louvre Abu Dhabi museum, in the Emirati capital on September 4, 2018.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian (2nd R) tours the Louvre Abu Dhabi museum, accompanied by the the Emirati Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, Noura al-Kaabi (to his L), on September 4, 2018.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian delivers a speech during his visit to the French school, Lycee Louis Massignon, in the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi on September 4, 2018.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian (2nd R) tours the Louvre Abu Dhabi museum, accompanied by the the Emirati Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, Noura al-Kaabi (to his L), on September 4, 2018.

UAE Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, Noura al-Kaabi, delivers a speech during French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian’s visit to the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum in the Emirati capital on September 4, 2018.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian (6th-L) poses for a group picture, accompanied by Mohamed Jameel Al-Ramahi (7th-L), CEO of Masdar City, a planned sustainable city project powered by renewable energy on the eastern outskirts of the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi, during the former’s tour of the site on September 4, 2018.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian disembarks from a driverless vehicle as he visits Masdar City, a planned sustainable city project powered by renewable energy on the eastern outskirts of the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi, on September 4, 2018.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian visits the French school, Lycee Louis Massignon, during his visit to the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi on September 4, 2018.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian (C) visits the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi on September 4, 2018.

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