ST. PETERSBURG. June 16 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has thanked his counterpart from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, for facilitation of the prisoner swap in the Ukraine conflict.
"I would like to thank you for our effort to solve humanitarian problems in the course of the events on the Ukrainian track associated with the exchange of captives and resolution of some other humanitarian problems of the sort. This is significant for particular persons, which is always the most important thing," Putin said at the start of negotiations with Al Nahyan in St. Petersburg on Friday.